Re: [PATCH 02/10] git-fast-export.txt: clarify misleading documentation about rev-list args

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On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:23:04PM -0800, Elijah Newren wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-fast-export.txt | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
> index ce954be532..677510b7f7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
> @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ marks the same across runs.
>  	'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
>  	to export.  For example, `master~10..master` causes the
>  	current master reference to be exported along with all objects
> -	added since its 10th ancestor commit.
> +	added since its 10th ancestor commit and all files common to
> +	master\~9 and master~10.

Do you need to backslash the second tilde?  Maybe `master~9` and
`master~10` instead of escaping?

I'm not sure what this is trying to say. I guess that we'd always show
all of the blobs necessary to reconstruct the first non-negative commit
(i.e., `master~9` here)?

-Peff



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