+2013-06-11 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+ * maintaining.texi (VC Directory Commands): Copyedit.
+ (Branches): Put back milder version of pre 2013-06-07 text.
+
2013-06-07 Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
- * maintaining.texi (Branches): Remove text copied from other
- sources.
+ * maintaining.texi (Branches): Remove text copied from other sources.
2013-06-05 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
@item x
Hide files with @samp{up-to-date} status
(@code{vc-dir-hide-up-to-date}). With a prefix argument, hide items
-that are in state of item at point from display.
+whose state is that of the item at point.
@end table
@findex vc-dir-mark
@cindex branch (version control)
One use of version control is to support multiple independent lines
-of development, which are called @dfn{branches}.
+of development, which are called @dfn{branches}. Amongst other
+things, branches can be used for maintaining separate ``stable'' and
+``development'' versions of a program, and for developing unrelated
+features in isolation from one another.
VC's support for branch operations is currently fairly limited. For
decentralized version control systems, it provides commands for