From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA891F404 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 05:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750828AbeAQFOG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:14:06 -0500 Received: from sodcd-04p2-40.ppp11.odn.ad.jp ([203.139.65.40]:63570 "EHLO sv-prius.atmark-techno.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbeAQFOF (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:14:05 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 306 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:14:05 EST Received: from leno.local-network (unknown [192.168.10.190]) by sv-prius.atmark-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43891BF949; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:08:57 +0900 (JST) From: Yasushi SHOJI To: benpeart@microsoft.com, gitster@pobox.com Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] RelNotes: fsmonitor: add a pointer to man page and the word itself Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:08:57 +0900 Message-Id: <20180117050857.10480-1-yashi@atmark-techno.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Add a pointer to git-update-index(1) and a bit more detail about fsmonitor and watchman to help people following up the new feature. --- Hi Ben and Junio, Wouldn't it be nice to tell the world a bit more about "file system monitor" we now support? I think that "git status" and "watchman" might not ring the bell for some, but adding a word "file system monitor" may. I know most of repos don't need fsmonitor but it's a cool feature to have it. ;-) WDYT? Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index 919f3eb3e..0c81c5915 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -62,8 +62,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. - * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other - operations that need to see which paths have been modified. + * We learned to optionally talk to a file system monitor via new + fsmonitor extension to speed up "git status" and other operations + that need to see which paths have been modified. Currently we only + support "watchman". See File System Monitor section of + git-update-index(1) for more detail. * The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in carriage return at the end of line. -- 2.15.1