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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses•org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 01:19:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070519051920.GB2679@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070519043234.GE3141@spearce.org>

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:34AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> It connects to the remote URL, lists the refs found there, and
> finds any that has the commit you passed in as the 3rd argument
> (defaults to HEAD).  If none match it prints ..BRANCH.NOT.VERIFIED..
> as the branch name, to signal no branch points at the given commit,
> which means it cannot be (easily) pulled.
> 
> Not getting that means you have too old of a Git to have my branch
> improvements.  It was in ff06c743dc, which is in master and hence
> should be in 1.5.2 final.

OK, that's very nifty.

> > (And I'm not sure
> > about that "change since commit..." stuff--that seems like slight
> > overkill.)
> 
> Yea, it can be a little overkill sometimes.  But the maintainer
> knows where you started from.  If that commit is horribly old he
> might wonder what is going on.  ;-)

Is that really helpful in practice?  Well, what would I know.

--b.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-19  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-18  3:37 Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-18  3:39 ` [PATCH] user-manual: reorganize public git repo discussion J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-18  4:56 ` Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches Petr Baudis
2007-05-18 13:43   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-19  4:02     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-19  4:13       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-19  4:32         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-19  5:19           ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]

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