From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:16:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix grammar in the 1.8.3 release notes.
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:
>
>> This started out as an attempt to make the backward compatibility notes
>> more parsable, but then I just kept going...
>
> Thanks.
>
>>   * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
>> -   any message as its one of the prerequistes.
>> +   any message, as it is one of the prerequistes.
>
> This is actually saying a different thing.  
>
> When you create a bundle, you can say "you can only unbundle this in
> a repository that has commit X", with "git bundle create $name ^X Y
> Z".  Such a commit X is called the bundle's prerequisite.  You can
> have more than one prerequisite, e.g. "... ^X ^W Y Z".
>
> But if you create a bundle by using a commit that does not have any
> message as X (i.e. the bundle's prerequisite), the "git bundle" did
> not like to read the resulting bundle output.
>
> So <a commit <without any message> as its (bundle's) one of the
> prerequisites> is what the original wanted to say.  The rewrite
> makes it read like "For a commit, having a message is a requirement
> to be used in a bundle", at least to me.
>
>>   * "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute

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