Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> A few days too late for the 1.9.0 release cycle :( >> >> This responds to Stefan Nwe's request for a 'git help' command that would >> access the release notes. ($gmane/240595 17 Jan 2014). >> >> I've used the full name "release-notes" for the help guide rather than >> Stefan's original 'git help relnotes'. >> >> The release-notes man page lists just the notes for the current release. >> The combined notes for all releases is nearing 15k lines. > > RelNotes are incremental and only useful for those who know what the > immediately previous release contained, but for most people who get > their Git from distros, I have this impression that the versions of > Git they get skip versions, and seeing the notable changes since the > previous source release will not give them wrong information---they Ehh,, s/will not give them/will give them/; obviously... > may have this warm fuzzy feeling that they know what is going on, > but they are missing information on all the accumulated changes that > were added in earlier versions their distro skipped---these changes > are still in the version they are running. I do not understand why > it is even a good idea to show release notes from the command line > "git" interface. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html