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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, bebarino@gmail.com, srabbelier@gmail.com,
	Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:25:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiknyZBeWY8Z14EF+uq_2feJxJniVBwpwjUHgdEF@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqzktwv3yx.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:55, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

>> Sadly, at least the user manual change suggested below is probably
>> not suitable, since reset --keep and --merge have not been around
>> since git 1.5.3 days.  Ideas for working around that and other
>> comments would be welcome.
>
> Do we really want to keep the user manual compatible with 1.5.3
> forever? It's nice to keep the user manual usable by slightly outdated
> Gits, but 1.5.3 starts being really old, and older docs are still
> available on the web (like
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.5.3.8/git.html ).

I didn't know we even did this with our user manual. When I read
manuals for version X (e.g. PostgreSQL, Emacs or libc versions) I
fully expect the features described to only work on the documented
version unless otherwise noted.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-31 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-29  8:35 [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-29  8:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Documentation: suggest "reset --merge" more often Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-03  9:32   ` Stephen Boyd
2010-10-29  8:39 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/2] Documentation: suggest "reset --keep" " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-30  1:55 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit Matthieu Moy
2010-10-31  3:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-31 14:04     ` Matthieu Moy
2010-11-05 14:39       ` Oldest Currently Distributed Git {Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit} Drew Northup
2010-10-31 17:25   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-11-01 20:03     ` [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit J. Bruce Fields

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