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doc: revisions - name the left and right sides

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The terms left and right side originate from the symmetric
difference. Name them there.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ A similar notation 'r1\...r2' is called symmetric difference
of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as
'r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)'.
It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
'r1' or 'r2' but not from both.
'r1' (left side) or 'r2' (right side) but not from both.
In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD.
For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What