Merge pull request #3468 from restic/rework-changelog

Reword changelog entries

changelog/unreleased/issue-2742

@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
-Bugfix: Improve error handling for rclone and rest backend over HTTP2
+Bugfix: Improve error handling for rclone and REST backend over HTTP2
 
-When retrieving data from the rclone / rest backend while also using HTTP2
+When retrieving data from the rclone / REST backend while also using HTTP2
 restic did not detect when no data was returned at all. This could cause
 for example the `check` command to report the following error:
-```
-Pack ID does not match, want xxxxxxxx, got e3b0c442
-```
 
-This has been fixed by correctly detecting the incomplete download and
+    Pack ID does not match, want [...], got e3b0c442
-retrying the download.
+
+This has been fixed by correctly detecting and retrying the incomplete download.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2742
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3453

changelog/unreleased/issue-3111

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Bugfix: Fix terminal output redirection for powershell
+Bugfix: Fix terminal output redirection for PowerShell
 
-When redirecting the output of restic using powershell on Windows, the
+When redirecting the output of restic using PowerShell on Windows, the
 output contained terminal escape characters. This has been fixed by
 properly detecting the terminal type.
 

changelog/unreleased/issue-3247

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-Change: Empty files now have size of 0 in restic ls --json output
+Change: Empty files now have size of 0 in `ls --json` output
 
-Restic ls --json used to omit the sizes of empty files in its output. It now
+The `ls --json` command used to omit the sizes of empty files in its
-reports "size":0 explicitly for regular files, while omitting the size field
+output. It now reports a size of zero explicitly for regular files,
-for all other types.
+while omitting the size field for all other types.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3247
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3257

changelog/unreleased/issue-3296

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Bugfix: Fix crash of `check --read-data-subset=x%` run for an empty repository
 
-`check --read-data-subset=x%` crashed when run for an empty repository. This
+The command `restic check --read-data-subset=x%` crashed when run for an empty
-has been fixed.
+repository. This has been fixed.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3296
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3309

changelog/unreleased/issue-3312

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-Enhancement: Add auto-completion file for fish
+Enhancement: Add auto-completion support for fish
 
-The version of cobra had been increased to v1.1.3, and `generate` command has added 
+The `generate` command now supports fish auto completion.
-auto-completion file for fish.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3312

changelog/unreleased/issue-3334

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 Bugfix: Print `created new cache` message only on a terminal
 
-`created new cache` message was outputed even when the output wasn't a
+The message `created new cache` was printed even when the output wasn't a
-terminal. That broke piping `restic dump` output to tar or zip
+terminal. That broke piping `restic dump` output to tar or zip if cache
-if cache directory didn't exist. The message is now only printed on a
+directory didn't exist. The message is now only printed on a terminal.
-terminal.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3334
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3343

changelog/unreleased/issue-3377

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Enhancement: Add release binaries for Apple Silicon
 
-We've added release binaries for macOS on Apple Silicon.
+We've added release binaries for macOS on Apple Silicon (M1).
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3377
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3394

changelog/unreleased/issue-3380

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Bugfix: Fix crash of `backup --exclude='**'`
 
-The exclude filter '**', which excludes all files, caused restic to crash. This
+The exclude filter `**`, which excludes all files, caused restic to crash. This
-has been fixed.
+has been corrected.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3380
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3393

changelog/unreleased/issue-3414

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-Enhancement: Add --keep-within-hourly switch to restic forget
+Enhancement: Add `--keep-within-hourly` option to restic forget
 
-restic forget allowed users to specify keeping a given number of 
+The `forget` command allowed keeping a given number of hourly
-hourly backups, or to keep all backups within a given interval,
+backups or to keep all backups within a given interval, but it
-but not both, that is to specify keeping hourly backups within
+was not possible to specify keeping hourly backups within a given
-a given interval.
+interval.
 
-The --keep-within-hourly switch offers this functionality, and 
+The new `--keep-within-hourly` option now offers this functionality.
-parallell switches for daily/weekly/monthly/yearly are also 
+Similar options for daily/weekly/monthly/yearly are also implemented,
-implemneted. The new switches are:
+the new options are:
 
     --keep-within-hourly <1y2m3d4h>
     --keep-within-daily <1y2m3d4h>

changelog/unreleased/pull-3167

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-Enhancement: Allow limiting the snapshots list
+Enhancement: Allow specifying limit of `snapshots` list
 
 The `--last` option allowed limiting the output of the `snapshots`
 command to the latest snapshot for each host. The new `--latest n`
 option allows limiting the output to the latest `n` snapshots.
 
-This change deprecate `--last` in favour of `--latest 1`
+This change deprecates the option `--last` in favour of `--latest 1`.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3167

changelog/unreleased/pull-3305

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Bugfix: Fix possibly missing backup summary of json output in case of error
+Bugfix: Fix possibly missing backup summary of JSON output in case of error
 
-When using --json output it happened from time to time that the summary output
+When using `--json` output it happened from time to time that the summary
-was missing in case an error occurred. This has been fixed.
+output was missing in case an error occurred. This has been fixed.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3305

changelog/unreleased/pull-3427

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Enhancement: `find --pack` fallback to index if data file is missing
 
-When investigating a repository with missing data files, it might be useful
+When investigating a repository with missing data files, it might be useful to
-to determine affected snapshots before running `rebuild-index`.
+determine affected snapshots before running `rebuild-index`. Previously,
-`restic find --pack pack-id` previously returned no data as it required
+`find --pack pack-id` returned no data as it required accessing the data file.
-accessing the data file. Now, if the necessary data is still available in the
+Now, if the necessary data is still available in the repository index, it gets
-repository index, it gets retrieved from there.
+retrieved from there.
 
 The command now also supports looking up multiple pack files in a single `find`
 run.

changelog/unreleased/pull-3449

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Bugfix: Correctly handle download errors during `restore`
 
-Due to a regression in restic 0.12.0 the `restore` command in some cases
+Due to a regression in restic 0.12.0, the `restore` command in some cases did
-did not retry download errors and only printed a warning. This has been
+not retry download errors and only printed a warning. This has been fixed by
-fixed by retrying incomplete data downloads.
+retrying incomplete data downloads.
 
 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3439
 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3449