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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Richard Hansen" <rhansen@rhansen.org>
Subject: Re: Re* [PATCH] doc: glossary: add entry for revision range
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 20:26:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60a317ab5068_149b6620891@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1ra46f0h.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> > Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> Perhaps.  Being illustrative for common use case is also important,
> >> so I do not mind teaching "missing endpoint at either side defaults
> >> to HEAD" early.
> >
> > A glossary is not a place to teach (anything other than the definition).
> > It's supposed to contain glosses (brief explanations).
> 
> Fair enough.  Then let's limit ourselves to the definition, but give
> a correct one.  It is not "syntax" that the phrase "revision range"
> refers to; it is what is specified by that syntax.

That's a distinction without a difference.

Like saying "Felipe is a person" is wrong, because "Felipe" is not a
person, but the _name_ of a person. This is excessive concern with minor
details to me.

In the minds of most people object identifiers are used interchangeably
with the object themselves: "Felipe" is a person, "master" is a branch, and
"master..@" is a revision range.

> [[def_revision_range]]revision range::
>         A set of connected commits to work on, usually specified by
>         giving two end points, like `origin..mytopic`.

endpoints.

As for the rest I already raised my concerns.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-16 20:37 [PATCH] doc: glossary: add entry for revision range Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17  7:46 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2021-05-17 10:30   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 11:55     ` Jeff King
2021-05-17 17:22       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  6:59         ` Jeff King
2021-05-18 12:28           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 19:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-17 21:05         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  0:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18  1:26             ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-05-18  2:08           ` Jeff King
2021-05-18  2:57             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18  5:20               ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  5:02             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  6:55               ` Jeff King
2021-05-18 11:42                 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18 12:47                   ` Jeff King
2021-05-18 21:09                     ` Felipe Contreras

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