Re: Documentation (mainly user-manual) patches

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On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:32:34AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> It connects to the remote URL, lists the refs found there, and
> finds any that has the commit you passed in as the 3rd argument
> (defaults to HEAD).  If none match it prints ..BRANCH.NOT.VERIFIED..
> as the branch name, to signal no branch points at the given commit,
> which means it cannot be (easily) pulled.
> 
> Not getting that means you have too old of a Git to have my branch
> improvements.  It was in ff06c743dc, which is in master and hence
> should be in 1.5.2 final.

OK, that's very nifty.

> > (And I'm not sure
> > about that "change since commit..." stuff--that seems like slight
> > overkill.)
> 
> Yea, it can be a little overkill sometimes.  But the maintainer
> knows where you started from.  If that commit is horribly old he
> might wonder what is going on.  ;-)

Is that really helpful in practice?  Well, what would I know.

--b.
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