Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10-rc0

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 8, 2012, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20120308063054.GD7643@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v7gyvkh84.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:35:07PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>  * A content filter (clean/smudge) used to be just a way to make the
>    recorded contents "more useful", and allowed to fail; a filter can
>    new optionally be marked as "required".

s/new/now/

>  * "git am" learned to pass "-b" option to underlying "git mailinfo", so
>    that bracketed string other than "PATCH" at the beginning can be kept.

s/bracketed/a &/

(or s/string/&s/)

>  * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
>    when the source repository's HEAD does not point to a branch.

Hmm. Hasn't this been the case for a while? The jk/clone-detached topic went into v1.7.7, and it was just fixes for some corner cases; actually writing a detached HEAD is much older than that, even.

I assume this entry is due to the nd/clone-detached topic. Reading over those commits, it seems like it is more about properly checking the "--branch" argument for being detached, so we can handle "--branch=v1.0". So maybe:

  * "git clone" learned to detach the HEAD in the resulting repository
    when the user specifies a tag with "--branch" (e.g., "--branch=v1.0").
    Clone also learned to print the usual "detached HEAD" advice in such
    a case, similar to "git checkout v1.0".

>  * "git log -G" learned to pay attention to the "-i" option and can
>    find patch hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the
>    given pattern ignoring the case.

This didn't parse well for me. Also, it affects -S, too, doesn't it? Maybe:

  * "git log -G" and "git log -S" learned to pay attention to the "-i"
    option. When "-i" is given, their patterns will match
    case-insensitively.

>  * The advise message given when the user didn't give enough clue on
>    what to merge to "git pull" and "git merge" has been updated to
>    be more concise and easier to understand.

s/advise/advice/

-Peff