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authorNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>2007-02-13 22:25:08 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-02-13 20:58:56 -0800
commita989a5ef2cc30dc623478bd9353c6e1c68e1c5ca (patch)
treedaf9a6cc57c7ee61a2c8dd970ff32d694e4e8c8d
parent437b1b20df4b356c9342dac8d38849f24ef44f27 (diff)
downloadgit-a989a5ef2cc30dc623478bd9353c6e1c68e1c5ca.tar.gz
Minor corrections to release notes
Update section about warning when leaving a detached head. Also fix a few indentations that weren't like the rest of the file. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt26
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt
index 84e7eaf3c8..f0120e1f5a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.0.txt
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
entries for selected paths.
- git-update-index is much less visible. Many suggestions to
- use the command in git output and documentation have now been
- replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm".
+ use the command in git output and documentation have now been
+ replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm".
* Repository layout and objects transfer
@@ -291,12 +291,10 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
reset" to jump to arbitrary commit, while still keeping your
HEAD detached.
- Going back to attached state (i.e. on a particular branch) by
- "git checkout $branch" can lose the current stat you arrived
- in these ways, and "git checkout" refuses when the detached
- HEAD is not pointed by any existing ref (an existing branch,
- a remote tracking branch or a tag). This safety can be
- overridden with "git checkout -f $branch".
+ Remember that a detached state is volatile, i.e. it will be forgotten
+ as soon as you move away from it with the checkout or reset command,
+ unless a branch is created from it as mentioned above. It is also
+ possible to rescue a lost detached state from the HEAD reflog.
* Packed refs
@@ -411,14 +409,14 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
* Foreign SCM interfaces
- - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the
- command-line backend was too slow and limited.
+ - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the
+ command-line backend was too slow and limited.
- - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to
- 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for
- day-to-day work.
+ - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to
+ 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for
+ day-to-day work.
- - git fast-import backend.
+ - git fast-import backend.
* User support