From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:05:58 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1392460179-776-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: GitList , Stefan Nwe To: Philip Oakley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 19 00:06:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFtkb-0002nj-7G for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:06:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754090AbaBRXGc (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:06:32 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:49398 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752968AbaBRXGM (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:06:12 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C506EDFE; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:06:01 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=WgIB7CQ0lUx0IivdRIyS4CzndQE=; b=FCjJZo rMKo59AqYBLf3lEcHlnRX7/Mfz47tT3JBvRY8H9X3DXIGQqKsfk786a8GGNXVS6Q cAlAo/GYPJkvGo7DLZyRSvTtOu81U3SH4UsmKYL585+XZMAV83jj3P0Xy9EyGQ73 zKw25lwMqUx2YC3zxxI7KLLgjd2SOUCrk9GHs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=jDLklqudekyBEWxAKPxru7Qf3m9o89iF PBGe7GxG7MBpqdNku5BI9cdGOAMMR5bEKZ++q/9RMmfCLif9jZbu/dJ7bydl5Auu 3EOiwHRJVhRFQ/LlLPcUxPRaJRP93wLocYrVTDQUGtcvBV2nS4DzVxq9YECGvOjR NmQKpqHFmv0= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33436EDFC; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:06:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 934476EDFA; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:06:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:14:52 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3B9FEEA8-98F1-11E3-8F62-1B26802839F8-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 help guide rather than >> Stefan's original 'git help relnotes'. >> >> The release-notes man page lists just the notes for the current release. >> The combined notes for all releases is nearing 15k lines. > > 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 changes since the > previous source release will not give them wrong information---they Ehh,, s/will not give them/will give them/; obviously... > may have this warm fuzzy feeling that they know what is going on, > but they are missing information on all the accumulated changes that > were added in earlier versions their distro skipped---these changes > are still in the version they are running. I do not understand why > it is even a good idea to show release notes from the command line > "git" interface.