Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-19 Thread Stefan Näwe
Am 18.02.2014 23:54, schrieb Philip Oakley: From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com I do not understand why it is even a good idea to show release notes from the command line git interface. My looking at this came from Stefan's suggestion noted above $gmane/240595. So it had at least one

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: RelNotes are incremental and only useful for those who know what the immediately previous release contained, but for most people who get their Git from distros, I have this impression that the versions of Git they get skip versions, and seeing the

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( This responds to Stefan Nwe's request for a 'git help' command that would access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). I've used the full name release-notes for the help guide rather than

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-18 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( This responds to Stefan Nwe's request for a 'git help' command that would access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). I've used the full name

Re: [PATCH] Git release notes man page

2014-02-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( This responds to Stefan Nwe's request for a 'git help' command that would access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). I've used the full name