Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Carl Worth
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:28:32 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thanks for your comments; You're welcome. > the attached probably needs proofreading. In general, I like it. The git-branch documentation already talks about "remote-tracking branches" so I've rewritten a couple of sentence below to use

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thanks for your comments; the attached probably needs proofreading. The changes in response to the remainder of your comments are quite straightforward and I do not think needs proofreading, so I'll incorporate them and push the result out in 'todo'. diff --git a/v1.5.0.txt b/v1.5.0.txt index c0f

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Jakub Narebski
Junio C Hamano wrote: > GIT v1.5.0 Release Notes (draft) > Would they be somewhere besides todo branch of git.git repository, like the v1.5.0 tag comment (content), or the NEWS file? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Carl Worth
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:20:06 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Also, in the same spirit of giving the release an early > exposure, here is the current draft of 1.5.0 release notes. Thanks, these are very good and really show how much great progress has gone into git recently. Congratulations to every

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > In general, though, I would agree that the major number should change if there > is an incompatible change. Maybe when those incompatible features are enabled by default. Right now they're not. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Horst H. von Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly >> > increase the number of testers. >> > ... >> > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms couple

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> * Reflog >> >> - Reflog records the history of where the tip of each branch >>was at each moment. > > It might make sense to reformulate that: > > Reflog records the history from the view point of the local

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: >>> Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? >>> >>> Direct your browser to >>> >>> http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=sn

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > > > >> Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? > > > > Direct your browser to > > > > http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=eaf6459e4d48

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > - 'git pack-refs' appeared in v1.4.4; You should probably mention that it is not necessary to run git-pack-refs by hand: git-gc is what you want. BTW have I praised y'all for inventing git-gc? It is _awesome_. I think I will turn into a DWIM g

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > >> Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? > > Direct your browser to > > http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=eaf6459e4d482af51429f9464125621b805eb5f Better URL is http://repo.or.cz/w/g

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? Direct your browser to http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=eaf6459e4d482af51429f9464125621b805eb5f BTW please don't top post. It uses bandwidth unnecessarily (both in terms

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of > surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old > git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it > would help people to try out and find wrinkles before

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > > increase the number of testers. > > ... > > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > > get you a bunc

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Junio C Hamano wrote: One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not like to get "beta" installed for them. I wonder if kernel.org machines are also

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > increase the number of testers. > ... > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new do

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:20:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of >> surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old >> git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it >> woul

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Bill Lear
On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 03:20:06 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of >surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old >git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it >would help people to try out

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Bill Lear
Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? Bill On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 07:42:56 (-0600) Bill Lear writes: >On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 03:20:06 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >>BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of >>surface cha

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Junio ! On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:20:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of > surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old > git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it > would help people to

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it would help people to try out and find wrinkles before the real thing for me to cut a tarball and a set o

[Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
This hopefully is pretty much it for 1.5.0 modulo potential bugs especially in newer topics. Aside from many bugfixes, changes since -rc1 are: - 'git log' is now reflog aware, and 'git show-branch' which knew about reflog already has become much more useful with reflogs. - the porcelain/