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

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:07 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Ah, I missed that it was in 2.33.1.  Thanks, and sorry for the noise.