Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 10:54:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
>> > How about this instead: prefixing with "As originally implemented",
>> > with a couple s/is/was/ thrown in...
>> >
>> >     As originally implemented, creation of linked-worktrees was
>> >     accomplished via `git checkout --to <path> <branch>`, and cleanup
>> >     of leftover administrative files, after `<path>` is deleted, was
>> >     done with `git prune --worktrees`. However, a recent unrelated
>> >     change to `git prune` led to a discussion that concluded that
>> >     worktree-related maintenance functionality didn't belong in `git
>> >     prune`.
>> >
>> > Is that sufficient to clue in the reader that "checkout --to" is not
>> > final form,...
>>
>> Yeah, I think that is a good way to address my concern.
>>
>> The current draft release notes to 2.5 mentions this feature as
>> experimental and warns that its UI is bound to change.  We will
>> ship the upcoming release with "checkout --to" and the more places
>> we advise the users that this UI is not final, the better.
>
> Here it is in patch form. (I wouldn't be surprised if the non-ASCII
> characters in Duy's name in the context line get botched again...)

Ok, the following is merged:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/87

Thanks both,
Christian.