From: Carl Baldwin <carl@ecbaldwin.net>
To: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Cc: "'Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason'" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"'Git Mailing List'" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bring together merge and rebase
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 13:05:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171225200509.GA24104@hpz.ecbaldwin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000d01d37c3c$207d7050$617850f0$@nexbridge.com>
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 05:19:35PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote:
> No matter how this plays out, let's please make very sure to provide
> sufficient user documentation so that those of us who have to explain
> the differences to users have a decent reference. Even now, explaining
> rebase vs. merge is difficult enough for people new to git to choose
> which to use when (sometimes pummeling is involved to get the point
> across 😉 ), even though it should be intuitive to most of us. I am
> predicting that adding this capability is going to further confuse the
> *new* user community a little. Entirely out of enlighted
> self-interest, I am offering to help document
> (edits/contribution//whatever) this once we get to that point in
> development.
I agree. I have a feeling that it may take a while for this to play out.
This has been on my mind for a while and think there will be some more
discussion before anything gets started.
Carl
> Something else to consider is how (or if) this capability is going to
> be presented in front-ends and in Cloud services. GitK is a given, of
> course. I'm still impatiently waiting for worktree support from some
> other front-ends.
It all takes time. :)
> Cheers,
> Randall
>
> -- Brief whoami: NonStop&UNIX developer since approximately UNIX(421664400)/NonStop(211288444200000000)
> -- In my real life, I talk too much.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-25 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-23 6:10 Bring together merge and rebase Carl Baldwin
2017-12-23 18:59 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-23 21:01 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-23 22:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-26 0:16 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 1:28 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-26 23:30 ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-12-26 17:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-12-26 19:44 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 20:19 ` Paul Smith
2017-12-26 21:07 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-23 22:19 ` Randall S. Becker
2017-12-25 20:05 ` Carl Baldwin [this message]
2017-12-23 23:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-24 14:13 ` Alexei Lozovsky
2018-01-04 15:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-25 23:43 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 0:01 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-01-04 19:49 ` Martin Fick
2017-12-23 22:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-12-25 3:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-26 1:16 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 1:47 ` Jacob Keller
2017-12-26 6:02 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 8:40 ` Jacob Keller
2018-01-04 19:19 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 0:31 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 5:09 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-05 5:20 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 18:04 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-26 20:31 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-04 20:06 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 5:06 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-04 19:54 ` Martin Fick
2018-01-05 4:08 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-05 20:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-06 17:29 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-06 17:32 ` Carl Baldwin
2018-01-06 21:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-12-27 4:35 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-27 13:35 ` Alexei Lozovsky
2017-12-28 5:23 ` Carl Baldwin
2017-12-26 4:08 ` Mike Hommey
2017-12-27 2:44 ` Carl Baldwin
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