From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:43:25 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002020031580.1681@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-0A5B25.21231201022010@news.gmane.org>

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ron Garret wrote:

>  Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> 
> > It is good of course that you bring those issues to our attention.  but 
> > it is more likely that the manual needs fixing than anything else.
> 
> That's fine.  My only aim here is to raise the issue.
> 
> By the way, if you (plural) think it would be helpful I'd be happy to 
> take a stab at rewriting this part of the manual.  Writing docs is a 
> drag, but it would probably be a useful exercise for me.

Please feel free to contribute.  We are all volunteers here and extra 
help is always welcome. The file Documentation/SubmittingPatches should 
give you lots of useful hints.


Nicolas