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The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric difference. Name them there. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference
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of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as
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'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'.
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It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
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-'r1' or 'r2' but not from both.
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+'r1' (left side) or 'r2' (right side) but not from both.
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In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD.
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For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What