Improve documentation of SyntaxProtocol.tracked and write entry in …

…release notes

Release Notes/510.md

@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
 - `DiagnosticSeverity` and `PluginMessage.Diagnostic.Severity` now have new case named `remark`
   - Description: Remarks are used by the Swift compiler and other tools to describe some aspect of translation that doesn't reflect correctness, but may be useful for the user. Remarks have been added to the diagnostic severity enums to align with the Swift compiler.
   - Pull Request: https://github.com/apple/swift-syntax/pull/2143
+- `SyntaxProtocol.tracked` / `SyntaxProtocol.originalNode(in:)`
+  - Description: `tracked` enables node tracking of a tree. For every tree derived from a tracked tree, `originalNode(in:)` returns the original node in the tracked tree. This allows clients to e.g. get the original location of a node in a source file after a tree has been modified.
+  - Issue: rdar://112679655
+  - Pull Request: https://github.com/apple/swift-syntax/pull/2118
 
 - New pattern node `EditorPlaceholderPatternSyntax`
   - Description: This node type will be placeholder that is used in a position that expects a pattern.

Sources/SwiftSyntax/SyntaxTracking.swift

@@ -267,18 +267,39 @@ class IndexInTreeFinder: SyntaxAnyVisitor {
 }
 
 extension SyntaxProtocol {
-  /// The same ``Syntax`` but with tracking enabled in the entire tree.
+  /// Start tracking this syntax tree as the original tree for all trees derived
+  /// from it.
   ///
-  /// All syntax nodes derived from this will be able to find their
-  /// corresponding location in this original tree.
+  /// All syntax nodes derived from the returned, tracked, tree will be able to
+  /// find the corresponding node in the original tree by calling
+  /// ``SyntaxProtocol/originalNode(in:)``.
+  ///
+  /// Derived nodes are
+  ///  - Nodes that contain a node from this tree as a subtree.
+  ///  - Nodes that resulted from modification of a node in this tree (e.g.
+  ///    modification of a child node or insertion of an element into a
+  ///    collection).
+  ///  - Detached subtrees of this tree (see ``SyntaxProtocol/detached``).
+  ///
+  /// Node tracking is not enabled by default because maintaining the mapping
+  /// back to the tracked tree has a performance cost that.
+  ///
+  /// A tree can only track a single original tree. I.e. it is not possible to
+  /// create a node that has one child in tracked tree A and another child in
+  /// tracked tree B. In practice, this should seldom pose an issue because the
+  /// most common use case is to mark the tree obtained from a file on disk as
+  /// the tracked tree and trees from separate source files will rarely be
+  /// merged.
   ///
+  /// - SeeAlso: ``SyntaxProtocol/originalNode(in:)``
   /// - Complexity: O(number of ancestors)
   public var tracked: Self {
     return Syntax(self).tracked.cast(Self.self)
   }
 
   /// If this syntax node is tracking `originalTree` and this node originated
-  /// in that tree, return the corresponding corresponding node in `originalTree`.
+  /// from that tree, return the corresponding corresponding node in
+  /// `originalTree`.
   ///
   /// The original node will have the same structure as this node but the parent
   /// might be different since it's anchored in `originalTree`.