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Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

From
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2015, 19:59 UTC
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 10:54:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
>> > How about this instead: prefixing with "As originally implemented",
>> > with a couple s/is/was/ thrown in...
>> >
>> >     As originally implemented, creation of linked-worktrees was
>> >     accomplished via `git checkout --to <path> <branch>`, and cleanup
>> >     of leftover administrative files, after `<path>` is deleted, was
>> >     done with `git prune --worktrees`. However, a recent unrelated
>> >     change to `git prune` led to a discussion that concluded that
>> >     worktree-related maintenance functionality didn't belong in `git
>> >     prune`.
>> >
>> > Is that sufficient to clue in the reader that "checkout --to" is not
>> > final form,...
>>
>> Yeah, I think that is a good way to address my concern.
>>
>> The current draft release notes to 2.5 mentions this feature as
>> experimental and warns that its UI is bound to change.  We will
>> ship the upcoming release with "checkout --to" and the more places
>> we advise the users that this UI is not final, the better.
>
> Here it is in patch form. (I wouldn't be surprised if the non-ASCII
> characters in Duy's name in the context line get botched again...)
Ok, the following is merged:
https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/87

Thanks both, Christian.

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  1. Christian CouderJul 5, 2015
  2. Eric SunshineJul 5, 2015
  3. Christian CouderJul 5, 2015
  4. Eric SunshineJul 5, 2015
  5. Thomas Ferris NicolaisenJul 5, 2015
  6. Eric SunshineJul 5, 2015
  7. Michael J GruberJul 8, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2015
  9. Christian CouderJul 8, 2015
  10. Johannes SchindelinJul 8, 2015
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2015
  13. Eric SunshineJul 6, 2015
  14. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2015
  15. Eric SunshineJul 6, 2015
  16. Christian CouderJul 6, 2015

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