From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix grammar in the 1.8.3 release notes. Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:16:57 -0700 Message-ID: <7vhaipghpy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vvc78u8jl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1367262904-9885-1-git-send-email-marcnarc@xiplink.com> <7vli81ghsf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Marc Branchaud X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 29 23:17:11 2013 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 1UWvRa-00063s-8U for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:17:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759933Ab3D2VRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:17:00 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:53155 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758142Ab3D2VQ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:16:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE9C1A479; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:16:59 +0000 (UTC) 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=RAE4qCTNPSiGjv2Jb0acdmAQ5uI=; b=iY9hlh NDT04Mlr2UmTRbu0T3JJWKo4fNnilCj3EMX+3NQ8EVsd+WzpHQh7MyVeF5f65Gvh vdlJGAQteJqw27kCFbDRBxKiGJNjfkgMRUOCuQYa44eJ/BzfHHg25FJF0b20fEbP rMPInwwJQ+bM2w3+hSlMNp14AqViIO6NWl9AU= 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=VCtQuVh6kZe7+a4lMW8suGk4gxLWoR7s yZs/Rv7hzCID0uhz+aTCgippFjlwAkFjN69urlL27LLSg/GJMSAmdbAP9pSrvLB2 BM2uPAjDfw7fg5kN4fSMmQc0wjp/S/p9Rkf8AtNbUpjRvoUh8vMexaAe62/SdzaJ i6d5k7rHlAo= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3421A1A476; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [24.4.35.13]) (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 9870F1A474; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:16:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <7vli81ghsf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:15:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 207098F2-B112-11E2-8971-8D009ADAE8A5-77302942!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: > Marc Branchaud writes: > >> This started out as an attempt to make the backward compatibility notes >> more parsable, but then I just kept going... > > Thanks. > >> * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without >> - any message as its one of the prerequistes. >> + any message, as it is one of the prerequistes. > > This is actually saying a different thing. > > When you create a bundle, you can say "you can only unbundle this in > a repository that has commit X", with "git bundle create $name ^X Y > Z". Such a commit X is called the bundle's prerequisite. You can > have more than one prerequisite, e.g. "... ^X ^W Y Z". > > But if you create a bundle by using a commit that does not have any > message as X (i.e. the bundle's prerequisite), the "git bundle" did > not like to read the resulting bundle output. > > So as its (bundle's) one of the > prerequisites> is what the original wanted to say. The rewrite > makes it read like "For a commit, having a message is a requirement > to be used in a bundle", at least to me. > >> * "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute Please disregard everything below this line; the message was sent unfinished by accident.