git-log.txt: generalize <since>..<until>

'<since>..<until>' is misleading, as there are many other forms that
'git log' can accept as an argument.  Replace it with <revision range>,
referring to the section "Specifying Ranges" in revisions.txt, and
rewrite the section appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 64cc337f9742b3c5abfda6bf01e3abc8e259abf5..9576695581cd75a21fa8b27a2a7e128b83893388 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-log - Show commit logs
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git log' [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[\--] <path>...]
+'git log' [<options>] [<revision range>] [[\--] <path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -62,12 +62,14 @@ produced by --stat etc.
        Note that only message is considered, if also a diff is shown
        its size is not included.
 
-<since>..<until>::
-       Show only commits between the named two commits.  When
-       either <since> or <until> is omitted, it defaults to
-       `HEAD`, i.e. the tip of the current branch.
-       For a more complete list of ways to spell <since>
-       and <until>, see linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
+<revision range>::
+       Show only commits in the specified revision range.  When no
+       <revision range> is specified, it defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the
+       whole history leading to the current commit).  `origin..HEAD`
+       specifies all the commits reachable from the current commit
+       (i.e. `HEAD`), but not from `origin`. For a complete list of
+       ways to spell <revision range>, see the "Specifying Ranges"
+       section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 
 [\--] <path>...::
        Show only commits that are enough to explain how the files