Re: A note from the maintainer

Hi Junio, Thanks for writing this note! It is very helpful. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The list archive is available at a few public sites: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/ >

Re: Cant download Git for Mac

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:18 AM, MH wrote: > I am trying to download Git and when I try it says “downloading” but it isn’t/ Yes, I can reproduce on Firefox 41.0.2 and Google Chrome 46.0.2490.80. > There is an option to download from source forge but I have been told that is >

[PATCH] user-manual: fix the description of fast-forward

Currently, the "Fast-forward merges" section of user-manual.txt says if the current branch is a descendant of the other, Git will perform a fast-forward merge, but it should the other way around. Correct this issue and improve wording. Signed-off-by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.f...@gmai

Re: ancestor and descendant ~ clarification needed

Hi Junio, On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Yeah, that is the other way around. > > (1) If the current branch is a descendant of the other--so every > commit present in the other branch is already contained in the > current branch--then

Re: ancestor and descendant ~ clarification needed

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I see. Thank you. What do you think about the following minor patch >> for user-manual.txt? > > While the updated text is more correct than the original, I do not > know if that is sufficient, or we would also want to

ancestor and descendant ~ clarification needed

Hi, In Documentation/user-manual.txt: In the following, we say that commit X is "reachable" from commit Y if commit X is an ancestor of commit Y. Equivalently, you could say that Y is a descendant of X, or that there is a chain of parents leading from commit Y to commit X. [...]

[PATCH] Documentation: fix header markup

Asciidoctor is stricter than AsciiDoc when deciding if underlining is a section title or the start of preformatted text. Make the length of the underlining match the text to ensure that it renders correctly in all implementations. Signed-off-by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.f...@gmail.com> --- Cur

Re: dead link on manual page

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Jaap Droogers wrote: > Hi, Hi Jaap, > In the last sentence of page > http://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Getting-a-Git-Repository I > found a dead link to page > http://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/1-git-server/_git_on_the_server >

[BUG] Broken links in Git Documentation/user-manual.txt

Hi list, In https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html , all links to the glossary[1] are broken. I'm aware of a recent bug report about broken links ($gmane/279048/), but that one seems unrelated to what I'm reporting. [1] For example: https://git-scm.com/docs/user-manual.html#def_head -- To