gitrevisions(7) says that <rev>^! resolves to <rev> and then all the
parents of <rev>. revision.c::handle_revision_arg_1() actually adds
all parents first, then <rev>. Change the documentation to leave the
order unspecified, to avoid misleading readers.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx>
---
Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index e3e350126d..0d2e55d781 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ Revision Range Summary
'<rev>{caret}!', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}!'::
A suffix '{caret}' followed by an exclamation mark is the same
- as giving commit '<rev>' and then all its parents prefixed with
+ as giving commit '<rev>' and all its parents prefixed with
'{caret}' to exclude them (and their ancestors).
'<rev>{caret}-<n>', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}-, HEAD{caret}-2'::
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2.37.3
