Illustration: "Commit DAG Revision Naming"

Jon Loeliger's ASCII art in the git-rev-parse(1) manual.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@ -132,6 +132,32 @@ which is passed to 'git-rev-list'. Two revision parameters
concatenated with '..' is a short-hand for writing a range
between them. I.e. 'r1..r2' is equivalent to saying '{caret}r1 r2'
Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger. Both node B and C are
a commit parents of commit node A. Parent commits are ordered
left-to-right.
G H I J
\ / \ /
D E F
\ | /
\ | /
\|/
B C
\ /
\ /
A
A = = A^0
B = A^ = A^1 = A~1
C = A^2 = A^2
D = A^^ = A^1^1 = A~2
E = B^2 = A^^2
F = B^3 = A^^3
G = A^^^ = A^1^1^1 = A~3
H = D^2 = B^^2 = A^^^2 = A~2^2
I = F^ = B^3^ = A^^3^
J = F^2 = B^3^2 = A^^3^2
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