From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Ardill Subject: Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:10:51 +1000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Git , Christian Couder , Nicola Paolucci , Junio C Hamano To: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 03 02:11:37 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZM3Ls-0006rZ-4b for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 02:11:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752269AbbHCALb (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Aug 2015 20:11:31 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:34628 "EHLO mail-ig0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751876AbbHCALb (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Aug 2015 20:11:31 -0400 Received: by igk11 with SMTP id 11so62144235igk.1 for ; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:11:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=uYPz0HbPX+/Ti1521HpF3pqzDrAMLJbQ/PnXbYkTE4U=; b=k6l8/UPGH3fE/TRP4+GMmXVwFeO+h9Ao85nrzov3Y3IuppksAeVpyunmPYxkNxMiim 7ViXOCQ9uytnlHbzQlHwcVdc1erEpZe6DoY73DweuF9njSen33fsNGpqiWvEKoMDNgr+ 0TLZrBoEJBz323RO3U1RBreCIlmDJEKkNJ7IBjq4ZBV3UhGZUJFBf7ne/2kyFDFQR0n5 WVkKJoFFMaBjlAzUuFf6/7+jGnCFlHBSMqUPk0cXJNygNPsYqAeZYT9yCGxkj6ffNHdt 2P4qBiw/oGTrj6A1jdGIkRyoZWkbTu4G6a7aWZOJfDcyiXrZKJig70GiN5oz20X4gAvX dOhA== X-Received: by 10.50.142.98 with SMTP id rv2mr17218135igb.41.1438560690483; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.107.144 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Aug 2015 17:10:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Thomas. On 3 August 2015 at 08:52, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen 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