In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated

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commit c26b8729ead2f4443204c497f98dc3767fca205f
Author: Aaron Crane <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 12:01:24 2016 +0100

    RMG: suggest a simpler way of reviewing perlhist changes

M       Porting/release_managers_guide.pod

commit 77087aae3c818e7cc72eaa85f8005396c5addd5e
Author: Aaron Crane <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 11:54:52 2016 +0100

    RMG: break a list over multiple lines
    
    I found these three similar filenames hard to read when flowed into a single
    paragraph.

M       Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
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Summary of changes:
 Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod 
b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index 56b8847..d148c21 100644
--- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -597,9 +597,23 @@ C<$Module::CoreList::Utils::VERSION> should always be 
equal to
 C<$Module::CoreList::VERSION>. If necessary, bump those two versions to match
 before proceeding.
 
-The files to modify are: F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList.pm>,
-F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/Utils.pm> and
-F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/TieHashDelta.pm>.
+The files to modify are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList.pm>
+
+=item *
+
+F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/Utils.pm>
+
+=item *
+
+F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList/TieHashDelta.pm>
+
+=back
 
 =head4 Update C<Module::CoreList> with module version data for the new release.
 
@@ -793,12 +807,14 @@ then configure and build perl so that you have a Makefile 
and porting tools:
 For the first RC for a MAINT release, copy in the latest
 F<pod/perlhist.pod> from blead; this will include details of newer
 releases in all branches. In theory, blead's version should be a strict
-superset of the one in this branch, but it's probably safest to diff them
-first to ensure that there's nothing in this branch that was forgotten
-from blead:
-
-    $ diff pod/perlhist.pod ..../blead/pod/perlhist.pod
-    $ cp  ..../blead/pod/perlhist.pod pod/
+superset of the one in this branch, but it's probably safest to examine the
+changes first, to ensure that there's nothing in this branch that was
+forgotten from blead. An easy way to do that is with C<< git checkout -p >>,
+to selectively apply any changes from the blead version to your current
+branch:
+
+    $ git fetch origin
+    $ git checkout -p origin/blead pod/perlhist.pod
     $ git commit -m 'sync perlhist from blead' pod/perlhist.pod
 
 =head3 update perlhist.pod

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