In its current form, the note talks about separating options from
"branch names" and "refnames" in the same sentence.  This is entirely
inaccurate, as <revision range> need not be a set of branch names or
ref names.  Rewrite it to use the word "revision range", to be
consistent with the SYNOPSIS.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-log.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index c238475..7ae21ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ produced by --stat etc.
        Simplification" below for details and other simplification
        modes.
 +
-To prevent confusion with options and branch names, paths may need to
-be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from options or refnames.
+Paths may need to be prefixed with "\-- " to separate them from
+options or the revision range, when confusion arises.
 
 include::rev-list-options.txt[]
 
-- 
1.8.2.1.501.gd2949c7

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