Subject: Re: [PATCH] revisions.txt: correct a mistake in dotted range notations section

From: Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 10:57:37 -0600

Chris Torek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 1:00 AM Pooyan Khanjankhani via GitGitGadget
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > From: Pooyan Khanjankhani <[email-masked]>
> >
> > Insert a missing 'not' word in a negative sentence.
> >   ... but are [not] reachable from neither A or C.
> 
> There's a peculiarity of the English language here that means you
> should not use the word "not". The actual error is using "or" as
> the conjunction, instead of "nor": the construct should read
> "neither <alternative 1> nor <alternative 2>", and it means that
> both alternatives are rejected.

But it's not the same to say "not reachable from either A or C", and
"reachable from neither A nor C". In the latter if a commit is reachable
from X (or anything other than A or C), it should be included.

So A~ would be included, because it's reachable from B and reachable
from not A (i.e. B).

It should be "not reachable from either A or C".

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras