# Draft of Git Rev News edition 78

5 messages from 2021-08-29 to 2021-08-31. Participants: Christian Couder, Philip Oakley.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/56397

## Christian Couder, 2021-08-29 10:21

Subject: Draft of Git Rev News edition 78
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Hi everyone!

A draft of a new Git Rev News edition is available here:

  https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-78.md

Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section either by editing the
above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on
this GitHub issue:

  https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/518

You can also reply to this email.

In general all kinds of contributions, for example proofreading,
suggestions for articles or links, help on the issues in GitHub, and
so on, are very much appreciated.

I tried to Cc everyone who appears in this edition, but maybe I missed
some people, sorry about that.

Jakub, Markus, Kaartic and I plan to publish this edition on Saturday July 31st.

Thanks,
Christian.

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## Christian Couder, 2021-08-29 10:23

Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 78
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 12:21 PM Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jakub, Markus, Kaartic and I plan to publish this edition on Saturday July 31st.

Actually on Thursday August 31st. Sorry.

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## Philip Oakley, 2021-08-29 19:53

Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 78
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Tuesday? 31st August..

On 29/08/2021 11:23, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 12:21 PM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jakub, Markus, Kaartic and I plan to publish this edition on Saturday July 31st.
> Actually on Thursday August 31st. Sorry.


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## Christian Couder, 2021-08-31 13:30

Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 78
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 9:53 PM Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> wrote:
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> Tuesday? 31st August..

Yeah, sorry for the confusion.

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## Christian Couder, 2021-08-31 13:36

Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 78
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 11:36 PM Markus Jansen <mja@jansen-preisler.de> wrote:
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> Tried to sort out tenses in the story, and added my usual tiny amount of correction suggestions in 34d65d4.
> As usual, feel free to further correct/revert/rephrase etc.

Thanks for the fixes! They LGTM!

> I like the backreferences to past editions, which I regard being a build-up mechanism for a collective/community memory :-).

Yeah, it's a balance between making things more useful without making
the text harder to read. But I think so far the result has been
positive.

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