Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> @@ -289,10 +299,10 @@ notation is used. E.g. "`{caret}r1 r2`" means commits reachable
>> from `r2` but exclude the ones reachable from `r1`.
>>
>> This set operation appears so often that there is a shorthand
>> -for it. "`r1..r2`" is equivalent to "`{caret}r1 r2`". It is
>> -the difference of two sets (subtract the set of commits
>> -reachable from `r1` from the set of commits reachable from
>> -`r2`).
>> +for it. When you have two commits `r1` and `r2` (named according
>> +to the syntax explained in SPECIFYING REVISIONS above), you can ask
>> +for commits that are reachable from r2 but not from r1 by
>> +"`{caret}r1 r2`" and it can be written as "`r1..r2`".
>
> I'm not sure if the last part is improvement, and it wouldn't be better
> to say rather than r1..r2 / ^r1 r2 are "commits that are reachable from
> r2, excluding those commits which are reachable from r1" (which translates
> into set difference / subtracting set of commits.
I tried to make it easier to understand by people without having to know
what a set difference is, and that was the reason I did not use "subtract"
nor "difference", as I saw somebody was quoting the above part in #git was
wondering what it was talking about.
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