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 It's nice to keep the user manual usable by slightly outdated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.
next prev 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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