[GitHub] [airflow] xinbinhuang commented on a change in pull request #6999: [AIRFLOW-XXXX] Clarify wait_for_downstream and execution_date

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xinbinhuang commented on a change in pull request #6999: [AIRFLOW-XXXX] Clarify wait_for_downstream and execution_date
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/6999#discussion_r362538389
 
 

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 File path: docs/tutorial.rst
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 @@ -313,8 +315,16 @@ to track the progress. ``airflow webserver`` will start a web server if you
 are interested in tracking the progress visually as your backfill progresses.
 
 Note that if you use ``depends_on_past=True``, individual task instances
-will depend on the success of the preceding task instance, except for the
-start_date specified itself, for which this dependency is disregarded.
+will depend on the success of their previous task instance (that is, previous
 
 Review comment:
   Just small NIT.. I feel like the original word `preceding` is clearer to me than `previous`

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