From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: [PATCH] ninor corrections to release notes Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:25:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 14 04:25:27 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 1HHAlq-0004dF-3O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:25:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932295AbXBNDZK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:25:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932297AbXBNDZK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:25:10 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:27430 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932295AbXBNDZJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:25:09 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JDF007X2O5WCG80@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:25:08 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Update section about warning when leaving a detached head. Also fix a few indentations that weren't like the rest of the file. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre --- Bah.... too late for the real release but still. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt index 84e7eaf..f0120e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series entries for selected paths. - git-update-index is much less visible. Many suggestions to - use the command in git output and documentation have now been - replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm". + use the command in git output and documentation have now been + replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm". * Repository layout and objects transfer @@ -291,12 +291,10 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series reset" to jump to arbitrary commit, while still keeping your HEAD detached. - Going back to attached state (i.e. on a particular branch) by - "git checkout $branch" can lose the current stat you arrived - in these ways, and "git checkout" refuses when the detached - HEAD is not pointed by any existing ref (an existing branch, - a remote tracking branch or a tag). This safety can be - overridden with "git checkout -f $branch". + Remember that a detached state is volatile, i.e. it will be forgotten + as soon as you move away from it with the checkout or reset command, + unless a branch is created from it as mentioned above. It is also + possible to rescue a lost detached state from the HEAD reflog. * Packed refs @@ -411,14 +409,14 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series * Foreign SCM interfaces - - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the - command-line backend was too slow and limited. + - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the + command-line backend was too slow and limited. - - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to - 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for - day-to-day work. + - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to + 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for + day-to-day work. - - git fast-import backend. + - git fast-import backend. * User support