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

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 pa

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

2013-04-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> First, and 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 the same, but I

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

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 commit

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

2013-04-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > First, and are ways to specify "revisions", not > "commits", as gitrevisions.txt would indicate. Second, > '..' 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 gitrevi

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

2013-04-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > First, and 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 "unsubscribe

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

2013-04-20 Thread Ramkumar Ramachandra
First, and are ways to specify "revisions", not "commits", as gitrevisions.txt would indicate. Second, '..' 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 log :/quuxery' i