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author | Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> | 2014-05-17 07:30:34 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-05-21 01:51:06 +0400 |
commit | 3054c66bd465175656ab16c0fa9de79284898223 (patch) | |
tree | adcc87a55304735c55970ae70974b0665622c970 /Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt | |
parent | b2c851a8e67da752d8a5dbde5a9dae6e3428a4c9 (diff) |
RelNotes/2.0.0.txt: Fix several grammar issues, notably a lack of hyphens, double quotes, or articles
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt | 73 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt index 263f5cbb40..b7da746add 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d"). The default prefix for "git svn" has changed in Git 2.0. For a long time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under refs/remotes, but it now places them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless -it is told otherwise with its --prefix option. +it is told otherwise with its "--prefix" option. Updates since v1.9 series @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Updates since v1.9 series UI, Workflows & Features * The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated - to a more recent version from the upstream. + to a more recent version from upstream. * The "remote-hg/bzr" remote-helper interfaces (in contrib/) are now maintained separately as a third-party plug-in. @@ -66,12 +66,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features single strand-of-pearls is broken in its output. * The "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted Porcelains to - parse command line options and to give help text learned to take + parse command-line options and to give help text learned to take the argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter, e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>"). * The pattern to find where the function begins in C/C++ used in - "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to help C++ source better. + "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to improve viewing C++ + sources. * "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the branch that we were previously on. @@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features "--sort=version:refname". * Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the - result wants to be pulled from and make sure what the end user + result wants to be pulled from and make sure that what the end user specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid mistakes. When you pushed out your 'master' branch to your public repository as 'for-linus', use the new "master:for-linus" syntax to @@ -117,28 +118,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have been marked for i18n/l10n. - * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that - is not a blob as an error. + * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses as an error an attempt to use an + object that is not a blob. * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an - operation to update the configuration in the standard input of - course is rejected). + operation to update the configuration in the standard input is + rejected, of course). * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly - speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely + speaking, this is a backward-incompatible change, but very unlikely to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy. - * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase", - learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line. + * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull" and "rebase", + learned to take the "--gpg-sign" option on the command line. * "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit - by setting "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to true (the - command line option --no-gpg-sign should override it). + by setting the "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to "true" + (the command-line option "--no-gpg-sign" should override it). * "git pull" can be told to only accept fast-forward by setting the - new "pull.ff" configuration. + new "pull.ff" configuration variable. * "git reset" learned the "-N" option, which does not reset the index fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command @@ -155,7 +156,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC - over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the + over HTTP code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the "easy" interface. * The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should @@ -193,20 +194,20 @@ notes for details). * The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import - marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out of - sync with the reality confuses a later invocation of itself. + marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out-of- + sync with reality confuses a later invocation of itself. - * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not + * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD's /bin/sh does not work well with. (merge 8cd6596 km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase later to maint). * zsh prompt (in contrib/) leaked unnecessary error messages. - * bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes + * Bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes correctly given "git pu<TAB>" when "pu" is aliased to "push". - * Some more Unicode codepoints defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero - width have been taught to our display column counting logic. + * Some more Unicode code points, defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero + width, have been taught to our display column counting logic. (merge d813ab9 tb/unicode-6.3-zero-width later to maint). * Some tests used shell constructs that did not work well on FreeBSD @@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ notes for details). * "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop. (merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint). - * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch + * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to "refs/remotes/origin/*", while storing "refs/frotz/*" to "refs/remotes/origin/fr/*"), aggressively thought that lack of @@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ notes for details). (merge 3c3e6f5 rr/doc-merge-strategies later to maint). * Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a - new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries but it was not + new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries, but it was not cleaned when we exit due to die() or a signal. (merge 7839632 jk/shallow-update-fix later to maint). @@ -298,19 +299,19 @@ notes for details). ".git" tells us where it is. (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint). - * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is - defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two + * "git push" did not pay attention to "branch.*.pushremote" if it is + defined earlier than "remote.pushdefault"; the order of these two variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did by mistake. (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint). - * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been + * Code paths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been tightened. (merge f80d1f9 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint). * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory - in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is - the same as one of the versions being compared. + in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew that it + is the same as one of the versions being compared. (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint). * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working @@ -321,7 +322,7 @@ notes for details). * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree did not work well when the working tree was specified via the - --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option. + "--work-tree" (and obviously with "--git-dir") option. (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint). * "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in @@ -329,12 +330,12 @@ notes for details). involved. This has been corrected. (merge 6e2068a bk/refresh-missing-ok-in-merge-recursive later to maint.) - * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command line arguments + * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command-line arguments that do not make sense, e.g. "--default" without the required value for that option. (merge a43219f ds/rev-parse-required-args later to maint.) - * include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that + * "include.path" variable (or any variable that expects a path that can use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a boolean, but the code failed to check it. (merge 67beb60 jk/config-path-include-fix later to maint.) @@ -346,20 +347,20 @@ notes for details). (merge later 655ee9e mw/symlinks to maint.) * "git diff --quiet -- pathspec1 pathspec2" sometimes did not return - correct status value. + the correct status value. (merge f34b205 nd/diff-quiet-stat-dirty later to maint.) * Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart - HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done + HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when the no-done extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of - shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to + shallow boundary commits after the sending side stopped talking to it. (merge 0232852 nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix later to maint.) * Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the extra and unnecessary trailing slash (such a slash is often - given by command line completion). + given by command-line completion). (merge 2e70c01 nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash later to maint.) * Documentation and in-code comments had many instances of mistaken |