Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Philip Oakley" writes: >> RelNotes are incremental and only useful for those who know what the >> immediately previous release contained, but for most people who get >> their Git from distros, I have this impression that the versions of >> Git they get skip versions, and seeing the notable chang

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-19 Thread Stefan Näwe
Am 18.02.2014 23:54, schrieb Philip Oakley: > From: "Junio C Hamano" >> I do not understand why >> it is even a good idea to show release notes from the command line >> "git" interface. > > My looking at this came from Stefan's suggestion noted above > $gmane/240595. So it had at least one fol

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > Philip Oakley writes: > >> A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( >> >> This responds to Stefan Nwe's request for a 'git help' command that would >> access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). >> >> I've used the full name "release-notes" for the h

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-18 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Junio C Hamano" Philip Oakley writes: A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( This responds to Stefan Nwe's request for a 'git help' command that would access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). I've used the full name "release-notes" for the help guide rathe

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley writes: > A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( > > This responds to Stefan Nwe's request for a 'git help' command that would > access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). > > I've used the full name "release-notes" for the help guide rather than > Stefan's o

[PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-15 Thread Philip Oakley
A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( This responds to Stefan N?we's request for a 'git help' command that would access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). I've used the full name "release-notes" for the help guide rather than Stefan's original 'git help relnotes'. The r