Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kicking the "reset --hard" habit

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On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:55, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Sadly, at least the user manual change suggested below is probably
>> not suitable, since reset --keep and --merge have not been around
>> since git 1.5.3 days. ÂIdeas for working around that and other
>> comments would be welcome.
>
> Do we really want to keep the user manual compatible with 1.5.3
> forever? It's nice to keep the user manual usable by slightly outdated
> Gits, but 1.5.3 starts being really old, and older docs are still
> available on the web (like
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.5.3.8/git.html ).

I didn't know we even did this with our user manual. When I read
manuals for version X (e.g. PostgreSQL, Emacs or libc versions) I
fully expect the features described to only work on the documented
version unless otherwise noted.
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