Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen]

Hi,

A draft of Git Rev News edition 6 is available here:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-6.md

Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section, either by editing the
above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on
this GitHub issue:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/89

You can also reply to this email.

Me and Nicola are planning to ship this edition on Wednesday 5th of
August (as Christian C. is away on vacation these days).

Note that I did not cc everyone involved in the discussed threads, which were:

* "git log fails to show all changes for a file"
* "Git tag: pre-receive hook issue"

Cheers,

-Thomas

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Andrew Ardill]

Hi Thomas.

On 3 August 2015 at 08:52, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A draft of Git Rev News edition 6 is available here:
>
> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-6.md
>
> Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section, either by editing the
> above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on
> this GitHub issue:
>
> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/89
>
> You can also reply to this email.

I did a quick read through and it looks like another interesting
edition, thank you! I couldn't see any obvious issues with it.

There is quite a lot of discussion in the support section, which I
really like. The following sections pack a lot in, but I think could
warrant a little more discussion themselves.

For example, I think it would be good to add a brief discussion about
the 2.5 release. This seems important/interesting enough to provide a
bit more context in the edition itself. Perhaps something like the
following?

--8<--

## Releases

* Git 2.5 is out! The project maintainer, Junio C. Hamano, has [shared
his thoughts on the release at his
blog](http://git-blame.blogspot.de/2015/07/git-25.html). Git 2.5 is
packed full of new features, and includes contributions from 21 new
contributors. In his post, Junio describes how `git help` has changed:

> One interesting change is to git help. We now list commands, grouped by the situation in which you would want to use them. This came from discussion on usability, inspired by one of the talks at GitMerge conference we had in spring.

He goes on to talk about some of his favourite new features included
in the release, such as a new short hand `branch@{push}` that "denotes
the remote-tracking branch that tracks the branch at the remote the
branch would be pushed to", and a new option `--ws-error-highlight`
that can be used with `git diff` and friends to show whitespace
breakages in deleted and context lines.

Be sure to see the post for more on the new features, or checkout the
[release notes in the
source](https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt)
for all the nitty gritty details.

--8<--

I'll copy this over to a pull request so you have it there if you
think it's useful.

Again, thanks for the edition, love reading these each month!

Regards,

Andrew Ardill

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Junio C Hamano]

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> writes:

> A draft of Git Rev News edition 6 is available here:
>
> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-6.md
>
> Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section, either by editing the
> above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on
> this GitHub issue:
>
> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/89
>
> You can also reply to this email.
>
> Me and Nicola are planning to ship this edition on Wednesday 5th of
> August (as Christian C. is away on vacation these days).

Thanks; it seems that the review section is rather thin.  No new and
interesting changes worth reviewing in the entire month of July?

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Thanks; it seems that the review section is rather thin.  No new and
> interesting changes worth reviewing in the entire month of July?

Of course there are, but I can only put in a few hours, and that goes
into the links-section. The newsletter's coverage is only as good as
the coverage that gets contributed. Christian has by far been the most
active contributor on that side, and as he is unavailable these days,
those parts are scarce.

I hope we can attract more contributors in the future, so the weight
of this doesn't lie too much on his shoulders. Perhaps we should send
out the draft earlier next time, and beckon for more contributions
from the list.

We could also add a call-for-help at the bottom of the respective
section, asking people who are trawling the mailing list to
contribute.

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Junio C Hamano]

Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> writes:

> I hope we can attract more contributors in the future, so the weight
> of this doesn't lie too much on his shoulders. Perhaps we should send
> out the draft earlier next time, and beckon for more contributions
> from the list.

Yeah, that is probably a good idea.  I was sort of surprised that
you announced to publish it in a few days.

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I hope we can attract more contributors in the future, so the weight
>> of this doesn't lie too much on his shoulders. Perhaps we should send
>> out the draft earlier next time, and beckon for more contributions
>> from the list.
>
> Yeah, that is probably a good idea.  I was sort of surprised that
> you announced to publish it in a few days.

There's no deep thoughts behind the scheduling. I just followed the
pattern of how Christian has done it in the past. If anyone is
preparing something concrete for this edition, let me know before
Wednesday.

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
<tfnico@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope we can attract more contributors in the future, so the weight
> of this doesn't lie too much on his shoulders. Perhaps we should send
> out the draft earlier next time, and beckon for more contributions
> from the list.

Just to follow up on this point: The draft for the next edition is
available here (still empty):

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-7.md

Suggestions and comments can go here:
https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/94

> We could also add a call-for-help at the bottom of the respective
> section, asking people who are trawling the mailing list to
> contribute.

You may have spotted that I added this in the recently published
edition, but I think it can bear repeating here for git@vger:

> Before we move on to the link section of this edition,
> we want to make a "call-to-arms" for people reading
> the Git mailing list. We didn't get enough material in
> this edition on what was really discussed on the list
> the last month. In order to to be the window into the
> Git community that we set out to be, we need your help.
>
> So please, the next time you read through an interesting
> discussion on the mailing list, note down a few lines
> about it and share them with us.

So, thanks in advance for the contributions we get for #7 and later editions!

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
<tfnico@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
> <tfnico@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I hope we can attract more contributors in the future, so the weight
>> of this doesn't lie too much on his shoulders. Perhaps we should send
>> out the draft earlier next time, and beckon for more contributions
>> from the list.
>
> Just to follow up on this point: The draft for the next edition is
> available here (still empty):
>
> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-7.md
>
> Suggestions and comments can go here:
> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/issues/94
>
>> We could also add a call-for-help at the bottom of the respective
>> section, asking people who are trawling the mailing list to
>> contribute.
>
> You may have spotted that I added this in the recently published
> edition, but I think it can bear repeating here for git@vger:

It is surprisingly difficult to get to the actual post of edition 6
from this thread. The link in the original post is just a 404, and to
get to it from the link in this mail, which you might not have sent at
all, I had to click like 5 things, and a few of those turned out to be
dead ends. I suppose once you know where they are published, it is
easy to find, but I did not :).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

[Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is surprisingly difficult to get to the actual post of edition 6
> from this thread. The link in the original post is just a 404, and to
> get to it from the link in this mail, which you might not have sent at
> all, I had to click like 5 things, and a few of those turned out to be
> dead ends. I suppose once you know where they are published, it is
> easy to find, but I did not :).

Sorry about this. It's because at the time of publishing, we move the
draft into the CMS' (Jekyll) blogging directory, and as we have no
nice and easy way of making redirects in that system, the link ends up
dead.

The current live edition 6 is here:
http://git.github.io/rev_news/2015/08/05/edition-6/

The source page is now here:
https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2015-08-05-edition-6.markdown

You can always find the latest published edition, as well as an
archive here: http://git.github.io/rev_news/

We'll make sure to include "fresh" links in our emails in the future.