Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Christian Couder writes: > > I think sometimes the details might be interesting for different reasons. > ... > With the details, I think readers are more likely to remember the > --merges option. That unfortunately cuts both ways. With too much details, the readers are more likely to skim and sk

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-08 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On 2015-07-08 12:29, Christian Couder wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Michael J Gruber writes: >> >>> Just as an example, in the section on "visualizing merge diffs after the >>> fact", few people will be interested in the detail that I pointed out >>> the "

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-08 Thread Christian Couder
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael J Gruber writes: > >> Maybe a matter of taste, but I think in general we could do with a bit >> less of "narrating" and more of "summarizing". > > True. I think sometimes the details might be interesting for different reasons. >> J

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-08 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael J Gruber writes: > Maybe a matter of taste, but I think in general we could do with a bit > less of "narrating" and more of "summarizing". True. > Just as an example, in the section on "visualizing merge diffs after the > fact", few people will be interested in the detail that I pointed

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-08 Thread Michael J Gruber
Eric Sunshine venit, vidit, dixit 06.07.2015 01:12: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Eric Sunshine >> wrote: >>> Unfortunately, the non-ASCII characters >>> in Duy's name got corrupted, and the botch is present in the patch I

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-06 Thread Christian Couder
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 10:54:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Eric Sunshine writes: >> > How about this instead: prefixing with "As originally implemented", >> > with a couple s/is/was/ thrown in... >> > >> > As originally implemente

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-06 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 10:54:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eric Sunshine writes: > > How about this instead: prefixing with "As originally implemented", > > with a couple s/is/was/ thrown in... > > > > As originally implemented, creation of linked-worktrees was > > accomplished via

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-06 Thread Junio C Hamano
Eric Sunshine writes: > How about this instead: prefixing with "As originally implemented", > with a couple s/is/was/ thrown in... > > As originally implemented, creation of linked-worktrees was > accomplished via `git checkout --to `, and cleanup > of leftover administrative files,

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-06 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Eric Sunshine writes: >> I'm not familiar with the criteria for deciding what merits mention >> in the newsletter. Is the recent introduction of git-worktree and the >> attendant relocation of "add" and "prune" functionality worthy? If >> s

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-06 Thread Junio C Hamano
Eric Sunshine writes: > I'm not familiar with the criteria for deciding what merits mention > in the newsletter. Is the recent introduction of git-worktree and the > attendant relocation of "add" and "prune" functionality worthy? If > so, perhaps the following write-up would be suitable? One iss

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-05 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Eric Sunshine > wrote: >> Unfortunately, the non-ASCII characters >> in Duy's name got corrupted, and the botch is present in the patch I >> sent. Sorry. Not sure how that happened. Can you fix it

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-05 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote: > Unfortunately, the non-ASCII characters > in Duy's name got corrupted, and the botch is present in the patch I > sent. Sorry. Not sure how that happened. Can you fix it locally? Fixed [1]. [1] https://github.com/git/git.github.io/commit/b5

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-05 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Christian Couder wrote: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 01:13:57PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: >>> A draft of Git Rev News edition 5 is available here: >>> https://github.com/gi

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-05 Thread Christian Couder
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 01:13:57PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: >> A draft of Git Rev News edition 5 is available here: >> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-5.md >> Everyone is wel

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-05 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 01:13:57PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > A draft of Git Rev News edition 5 is available here: > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-5.md > Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section... I'm not familiar with th

Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-05 Thread Christian Couder
Hi, A draft of Git Rev News edition 5 is available here: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-5.md Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section, like Junio and Matthieu already did, either by editing the above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or