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

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> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> + * "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.
>
> The fix itself (i.e. "git pull --ff-only --rebase" when faced with
> new development on the other side) has already been described in an
> earlier entry (the third one in "Fixes since v2.33" section) and is
> in both 2.33.1 and 2.34.0-rc2.  The above entry is about what "git
> pull -ff-only -rebase" does when the other side lags behind us,
> which should be and used to be a no-op "already up-to-date" but the
> earlier fix broke it.  It should be in 2.34 final, and if we were to
> issue 2.33.2 later, it should go there, too.