Re: Starting 1.5.3 stabilization cycle

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707031923180.4071@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070703181428.GD4580@xp.machine.xx>

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:29:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> >   - "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode.
> 
> Short describtion missing?

s/b/p/ ;-)

> 	This is meant for reordering the commits, merge several commits into
> 	one or even remove some of them.

Or even better:

	- "git rebase" learned an "interactive" mode, where you can pick 
	  and reorder the commits to be applied.

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> >   - "git-filter-branch" is a reborn cg-admin-rewritehist.
> 
> Better mention what it is for, e.g:
> 
> 	Lets you rewrite GIT revision history by applying custom filters 
>	on each revision. Those filters can modify each tree or 
>	information about each commit.

I never liked that description. How about (shameless plug) the description from my last patch:

	git-filter-branch lets you rewrite the revision history of the 
	current branch, creating a new branch. You can specify a number of 
	filters to modify the commits, files and trees.

Ciao, Dscho