The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric difference. Name them there.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> --- unchanged --- Documentation/revisions.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 19314e3..6e9cd41 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as 'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'. It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of -'r1' or 'r2' but not from both. +'r1' (left side) or 'r2' (right side) but not from both. In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD. For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What -- 2.9.0.windows.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
