From 512ffe33732f5484672c69d3b7b18edeccee3768 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:03:56 -0700 Subject: NEWS: Document the recent 'nmbug clone' and @{upstream} changes The changes landed with c200167 (nmbug: Add 'clone' and replace FETCH_HEAD with @{upstream}, 2014-03-09). The preferred markup language for NEWS seems to be Markdown, which is parsed by devel/news2wiki.pl into Markdown chunks for rendering by ikiwiki [1]. [1]: http://notmuchmail.org/news/ --- NEWS | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f1d54999..eeea10e8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -43,6 +43,28 @@ Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded newlines before calling notmuch count. +nmbug +----- + +nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and +uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes. + + The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple + branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT` + repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and + remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is: + + 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the + nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote + repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4. + 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`). + 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone: + + nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git + + 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that + repository and fetch them into the new repository. + Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30) ========================= -- cgit v1.2.3