Meta/cook: update explanation of next and seen
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 8, 2021 at 14:10 UTC
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@@ -288,16 +288,15 @@ sub blurb_text {
$next_at ||= '0' x 40;
$text ||= <<'EOF';
Here are the topics that have been cooking in my tree. Commits
-prefixed with '-' are only in 'seen' while commits prefixed with '+'
-are in 'next'. The ones marked with '.' do not appear in any of the
-integration branches, but I am still holding onto them. Generally,
-being in 'next' is a sign that a topic is stable enough to be used
-and are candidate to be in a future release, while being in 'seen'
-means nothing more than that the maintainer has found it interesting
-for some reason (like "it may have hard-to-resolve conflicts with
+prefixed with '+' are in 'next' (being in 'next' is a sign that a
+topic is stable enough to be used and are candidate to be in a
+future release). Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'seen',
+which means nothing more than that I have found them of interest for
+some reason (like "it may have hard-to-resolve conflicts with
another topic already in flight" or "this may turn out to be
-useful")---do not read too much into a topic being in (or not in)
-'seen'.
+useful"). Do not read too much into a topic being in (or not in)
+'seen'. The ones marked with '.' do not appear in any of the
+integration branches, but I am still holding onto them.
Copies of the source code to Git live in many repositories, and the