doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 1d1593fbf83decd5cd1d4aaf1c52735ff2dddf5e..64bc83eaa57ca0478442d5ece4966b13b856d356 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ for naming a set that is formed by a commit and its parent commits.
 
 The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'.
 
-'r1{caret}!' includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents.
+The 'r1{caret}!' notation includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents.
+By itself, this notation denotes the single commit 'r1'.
 
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