Matthew DeVore <matv...@google.com> writes: >> It is more like "this is a set operation across commits. We also >> show objects that are reachable from the commits in the resulting >> set and are not reachable from the commits in the set that were >> excluded when --objects option is given". >> > That would be correct though it wouldn't tell that you can use > "--objects ^foo-tree bar-tree."
Yeah, but quite honestly, I consider that it is working by accident, not by design, in the current code (iow, you are looking at a behaviour of whatever the code happens to do). "rev-list" is pretty much set operation across commits, and anything that deals with a non commit-ish given from the command line is an afterthought at best, and happenstance in reality. I do not mean to say that the code must stay that way, though.
