Meta/cook: update explanation of next and seen

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Junio C Hamano
2021-07-08 14:10:36 -07:00
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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