Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
index 6e628d4..e6bf9d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
The default prefix for "git svn" has changed in Git 2.0. For a long
time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
refs/remotes, but it now places them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
-it is told otherwise with its --prefix option.
+it is told otherwise with its "--prefix" option.
Updates since v1.9 series
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Updates since v1.9 series
UI, Workflows & Features
* The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated
- to a more recent version from the upstream.
+ to a more recent version from upstream.
* "git gc --aggressive" learned "--depth" option and
"gc.aggressiveDepth" configuration variable to allow use of a less
@@ -63,12 +63,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
single strand-of-pearls is broken in its output.
* The "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted Porcelains to
- parse command line options and to give help text learned to take
+ parse command-line options and to give help text learned to take
the argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter,
e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
* The pattern to find where the function begins in C/C++ used in
- "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to help C++ source better.
+ "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to improve viewing C++
+ sources.
* "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the
branch that we were previously on.
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
"--sort=version:refname".
* Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the
- result wants to be pulled from and make sure what the end user
+ result wants to be pulled from and make sure that what the end user
specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid
mistakes. When you pushed out your 'master' branch to your public
repository as 'for-linus', use the new "master:for-linus" syntax to
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git grep" learned to behave in a way similar to native grep when
"-h" (no header) and "-c" (count) options are given.
- * "git push" via transport-helper interface (e.g. remote-hg) has
+ * "git push" via transport-helper interfaces (e.g. remote-hg) has
been updated to allow forced ref updates in a way similar to the
natively supported transports.
@@ -114,28 +115,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
been marked for i18n/l10n.
- * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
- is not a blob as an error.
+ * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses as an error an attempt to use an
+ object that is not a blob.
* "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
- operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
- course is rejected).
+ operation to update the configuration in the standard input is
+ rejected, of course).
* Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
- speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
+ speaking, this is a backward-incompatible change, but very unlikely
to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
- * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
- learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
+ * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull" and "rebase",
+ learned to take the "--gpg-sign" option on the command line.
* "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
- by setting "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to true (the
- command line option --no-gpg-sign should override it).
+ by setting the "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to "true"
+ (the command-line option "--no-gpg-sign" should override it).
* "git pull" can be told to only accept fast-forward by setting the
- new "pull.ff" configuration.
+ new "pull.ff" configuration variable.
* "git reset" learned the "-N" option, which does not reset the index
fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
- over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
+ over HTTP code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
"easy" interface.
* The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
@@ -190,20 +191,20 @@ notes for details).
* The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the
transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import
- marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out of
- sync with the reality confuses a later invocation of itself.
+ marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out-of-
+ sync with reality confuses a later invocation of itself.
- * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not
+ * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD's /bin/sh does not
work well with.
(merge 8cd6596 km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase later to maint).
* zsh prompt (in contrib/) leaked unnecessary error messages.
- * bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
+ * Bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
correctly given "git pu<TAB>" when "pu" is aliased to "push".
- * Some more Unicode codepoints defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
- width have been taught to our display column counting logic.
+ * Some more Unicode code points, defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
+ width, have been taught to our display column counting logic.
(merge d813ab9 tb/unicode-6.3-zero-width later to maint).
* Some tests used shell constructs that did not work well on FreeBSD
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ notes for details).
* "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop.
(merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint).
- * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch
+ * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch
refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to
"refs/remotes/origin/*", while storing "refs/frotz/*" to
"refs/remotes/origin/fr/*"), aggressively thought that lack of
@@ -272,7 +273,7 @@ notes for details).
(merge 3c3e6f5 rr/doc-merge-strategies later to maint).
* Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
- new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries but it was not
+ new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries, but it was not
cleaned when we exit due to die() or a signal.
(merge 7839632 jk/shallow-update-fix later to maint).
@@ -295,19 +296,19 @@ notes for details).
".git" tells us where it is.
(merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
- * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
- defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
+ * "git push" did not pay attention to "branch.*.pushremote" if it is
+ defined earlier than "remote.pushdefault"; the order of these two
variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
by mistake.
(merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
- * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
+ * Code paths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
tightened.
(merge f80d1f9 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
* "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
- in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
- the same as one of the versions being compared.
+ in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew that it
+ is the same as one of the versions being compared.
(merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint).
* "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
@@ -318,7 +319,7 @@ notes for details).
* "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
did not work well when the working tree was specified via the
- --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option.
+ "--work-tree" (and obviously with "--git-dir") option.
(merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint).
* "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
@@ -326,12 +327,12 @@ notes for details).
involved. This has been corrected.
(merge 6e2068a bk/refresh-missing-ok-in-merge-recursive later to maint.)
- * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command line arguments
+ * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command-line arguments
that do not make sense, e.g. "--default" without the required
value for that option.
(merge a43219f ds/rev-parse-required-args later to maint.)
- * include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that
+ * "include.path" variable (or any variable that expects a path that
can use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a
boolean, but the code failed to check it.
(merge 67beb60 jk/config-path-include-fix later to maint.)
@@ -343,20 +344,20 @@ notes for details).
(merge later 655ee9e mw/symlinks to maint.)
* "git diff --quiet -- pathspec1 pathspec2" sometimes did not return
- correct status value.
+ the correct status value.
(merge f34b205 nd/diff-quiet-stat-dirty later to maint.)
* Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart
- HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done
+ HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when the no-done
extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of
- shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to
+ shallow boundary commits after the sending side stopped talking to
it.
(merge 0232852 nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix later to maint.)
* Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is
bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the
extra and unnecessary trailing slash (such a slash is often
- given by command line completion).
+ given by command-line completion).
(merge 2e70c01 nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash later to maint.)
* Documentation and in-code comments had many instances of mistaken
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1.9.2
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