From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 01:19:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20070519051920.GB2679@fieldses.org> References: <20070518033746.GB30144@fieldses.org> <20070518045634.GU4489@pasky.or.cz> <20070518134316.GA21925@fieldses.org> <20070519040212.GC3141@spearce.org> <20070519041357.GA2679@fieldses.org> <20070519043234.GE3141@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 19 07:19:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HpHLv-0006Bv-Ph for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 07:19:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755982AbXESFT1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 01:19:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755574AbXESFT1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 01:19:27 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:33394 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754746AbXESFT0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 01:19:26 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HpHLc-0004TM-Tg; Sat, 19 May 2007 01:19:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070519043234.GE3141@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:34AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > It connects to the remote URL, lists the refs found there, and > finds any that has the commit you passed in as the 3rd argument > (defaults to HEAD). If none match it prints ..BRANCH.NOT.VERIFIED.. > as the branch name, to signal no branch points at the given commit, > which means it cannot be (easily) pulled. > > Not getting that means you have too old of a Git to have my branch > improvements. It was in ff06c743dc, which is in master and hence > should be in 1.5.2 final. OK, that's very nifty. > > (And I'm not sure > > about that "change since commit..." stuff--that seems like slight > > overkill.) > > Yea, it can be a little overkill sometimes. But the maintainer > knows where you started from. If that commit is horribly old he > might wonder what is going on. ;-) Is that really helpful in practice? Well, what would I know. --b.