Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of since..until

2013-04-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: First, since and until are ways to specify revisions, not commits, as gitrevisions.txt would indicate. Second, 'since..until' is simply indicative of how users would normally want to specify the rev spec: it need not conform to this form, and

Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of since..until

2013-04-21 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
Jonathan Nieder wrote: What's the difference between a revision and a commit? The definition in gitglossary(7) only confuses me. What's so confusing about it? commit:: As a noun: A single point in the Git history; the entire history of a project is represented as a set of interrelated

Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of since..until

2013-04-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: First, since and until are ways to specify revisions, not commits, as gitrevisions.txt would indicate. What's the difference between a revision and a commit? The definition in gitglossary(7) only confuses me. They are

Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of since..until

2013-04-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: What's so confusing about it? [...] revision:: A particular state of files and directories which was stored in the object database. It is referenced by a commit object. So a revision is a tree? (one of the things pointed to by a commit object, representing a

[PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of since..until

2013-04-20 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
First, since and until are ways to specify revisions, not commits, as gitrevisions.txt would indicate. Second, 'since..until' is simply indicative of how users would normally want to specify the rev spec: it need not conform to this form, and can take any form that gitrevisions.txt lists. A 'git

Re: [PATCH 3/5] git-log.txt: fix description of since..until

2013-04-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: First, since and until are ways to specify revisions, not commits, as gitrevisions.txt would indicate. What's the difference between a revision and a commit? The definition in gitglossary(7) only confuses me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line