Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.2-rc3

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 11, 2007, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6pnb80w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070511090201.GC24971@admingilde.org>

Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:

> Perhaps we should not advertise submodule support that prominently.
> I think we should wait for nice porcelain support before can put it at
> the top of the release announcements.

I understand your point, but I tend to disagree.

> Otherwise we get much too many expectations and too many questions about
> how to use it.

Actually, that is probably a good thing.

As we (including you, whose initial work was instrumental to stir the discussion that led to the one by Linus) answer them here, we will accumulate bodies of text that describe what can be done today, what are missing, what needs to be recursive and what approaches we can take in the Porcelains. Somebody can summarize and write documentation pages and to-do list out of that.