Re: [PATCH] NEWS: Document the recent 'nmbug clone' and @{upstream} changes

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

> The changes just 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 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index d4f4ea4..e26fa0a 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -20,6 +20,26 @@ 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 bare `NMBGIT`
> +  repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to a non-bare repository.  The
> +  easiest way to do this is:

That bit about non-bare seems to be untrue/misleading?

As a step 0, I guess commit any tag changes to nmbug?
> +
> +  1. Push any local commits to a remote repository.
> +  2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
> +  3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
> +
> +        nmbug clone nmbug@nmbug.tethera.net:nmbug-tags
> +

Jani mentioned on IRC that some people might track nmbug in a read only
way via git://

> +  4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
> +     repository and fetch them into the new repository.

Is the "remote repository" in step 1 meant to be the central repo? or
just a backup?