Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 12:14:41PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> So the patch is worth applying, but I may tweak the changelog some. > > I spotted a414684e3b735a4114c19295a07e8cb2eb889dae in next now. You made > the changelog read: > > The "^0" syntax is no longer needed to fast-forward to a mainline commit > > I'm willing to bet that ^0 was never needed to force a fast-forward and > using it was never had an advantage. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwaxsNZ0ACQkASdDTbSrdcHMJpFPtswK485tEWRBVVYrA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Git has since been changed, as I said before, so that it's no longer necessary to use the ^0 notation. So I maintain that, while the doc change was good, the changelog wasn't quite right. jon
