Add some more detail on the $(decorate) log format placeholder and tweak
the wording on some other points.
---
Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt | 20 +++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt
index 770543c464..9a68074a4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Backward Compatibility Notes
prefix. If you are negatively affected by this change, please use
"--subject-prefix=PATCH --rfc" as a replacement.
- * "git rev-list --stdin" learned to take non-revisions (like "--not")
- recently from the standard input, but the way such a "--not" was
+ * "git rev-list --stdin" recently learned to take non-revisions (like
+ "--not") from the standard input, but the way such a "--not" was
handled was quite confusing, which has been rethought. The updated
rule is that "--not" given from the command line only affects revs
given from the command line that comes but not revs read from the
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Git GUI updates.
- * "git format-patch" learns a way to feed cover letter description,
- that (1) can be used on detached HEAD where there is no branch
- description available, and (2) also can override the branch
- description if there is one.
+ * "git format-patch" learns option "--description-file" to feed in a
+ cover letter description that can be used when no branch description
+ is available, or that can override the branch description if there is
+ one.
* Use of --max-pack-size to allow multiple packfiles to be created is
now supported even when we are sending unreachable objects to cruft
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
"--subject-prefix" option and used "[RFC PATCH]"; now we will add
"RFC" prefix to whatever subject prefix is specified.
- * "git log --format" has been taught the %(decorate) placeholder.
+ * "git log" format strings now support a "%(decorate)" placeholder that
+ can be used to customize the symbols and the tag prefix used in ref
+ decorations.
* The default log message created by "git revert", when reverting a
commit that records a revert, has been tweaked, to encourage people
@@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The attribute subsystem learned to honor `attr.tree` configuration
that specifies which tree to read the .gitattributes files from.
- * "git merge-file" learns a mode to read three contents to be merged
+ * "git merge-file" learns a mode to read three files to be merged
from blob objects.
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The code to keep track of existing packs in the repository while
repacking has been refactored.
- * The "streaming" interface used for bulk-checkin codepath has been
+ * The "streaming" interface used for the bulk-checkin codepath has been
narrowed to take only blob objects for now, with no real loss of
functionality.
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2.43.0-rc2
