Re: [PATCH] RelNotes: fix a couple of typos for the upcoming release

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2021, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BETy2=J1jNsS_pPpby7Z1P0Yfp92eekMLRicaA=YCL8tQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 9:51 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
> writes:
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> > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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> >     RelNotes: fix a couple of typos for the upcoming release
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> Thanks.  Relative to -rc2, here is what I have today, taking these
> typofixes, and a few topics for regression fixes.
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> + * "git pull --ff-only" and "git pull --rebase --ff-only" should make
> +   it a no-op to attempt pulling from a remote that is behind us, but
> +   instead the command errored out by saying it was impossible to
> +   fast-forward, which may technically be true, but not a useful thing
> +   to diagnose as an error.  This has been corrected.
> +   (merge 361cb52383 jc/fix-pull-ff-only-when-already-up-to-date later to maint).

Is this worth calling out in the release notes? I thought the discussion elsewhere on this list pointed out that this bug did not exist in v2.33 or before after all, but rather that it was a regression that was new to the v2.34 development cycle.