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How I learned to love rebase

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Re: How I learned to love rebase

#11

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

Chrome's Windows font rendering rears it's ugly head again. While the fault here is entirely with Chrome I still don't understand how so many people (and even some high profile projects/organizations) choose to use those web fonts which are unreadable in Chrome.

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#12

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

http://i.imgur.com/XcqHLyE.png

Was about to post the same complaint :)

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#13

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

Chrome and thin fonts don't mix well. That said, I still don't understand why people use thin fonts for body copy. It reduces readability so much (even on FF where the rendering is fine).

Curiously for me it's garbage in Firefox 19 and normal (except kind of gray-on-gray) in Opera 12 and Chrome 25.

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#14

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_sHgQoVOruvTmJjdHlWUTk4dGM/... Ya know what. It looks fine in Firefox, but that font looks like garbage rendered in Chrome. I don't know if it's the font-family or the font-size, but something's making me want to scratch my eyes out or make me want to kill my screen with fire. It's probably an unfair generalization to assume that all female Python developers don't use Chrome.

Wow. I'm on Safari in OS X and it doesn't look anything like that. No wonder you guys are having trouble reading it.

http://imgur.com/TAQBRcV

I'd rather it just be left at default, but at least it's readable.

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#15

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

Sorry to rant, but I haven't yet brought myself to understand this position. Maybe it makes sense to designers or snobs but I have go calm down for a while just be able to reply. Am I the only person who thinks that ignoring good content to complain about formatting choices is vacuous at best?

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#16

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

Here the glyphs are rendered fine, but the kerning is really bad.

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#18

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

Sorry to rant, but I haven't yet brought myself to understand this position. Maybe it makes sense to designers or snobs but I have go calm down for a while just be able to reply. Am I the only person who thinks that ignoring good content to complain about formatting choices is vacuous at best?

yes, probably.

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#19

Sorry to nag, but I haven't yet brought myself to make it past the first paragraph. Maybe it looks elegant or classy on someone else's screen, but I had to go re-enable Evernote Clearly just to be able to read it. Am I the only one?

Sorry to rant, but I haven't yet brought myself to understand this position. Maybe it makes sense to designers or snobs but I have go calm down for a while just be able to reply. Am I the only person who thinks that ignoring good content to complain about formatting choices is vacuous at best?

We need a "hide comments complaining about font" userscript.

Seriously, it's the third perfectly fine article I read today where a quite high voted comment (with tons of children comments) is "I hate to be that guy, but your text has bad kerning on [some precise browser version].

(on the other hand, this one might be justified. Just checked on Chrome, and all the 't's miss their bars. It might qualify as unreadable. My (and your) point still stands for 99% of the other such complaints, though)

Re: How I learned to love rebase

#20
Can somebody try to explain what considerations go into picking between merge and rebase, or when rebase is a better option? The example here "you've branched that file and made some changes. Meanwhile, someone else has modified that same file on the master branch..." says 'merge' to me, and I'm not sure what consideration goes into the decision that rebase is the right tool instead. I've tried to google a bit, and read some posts on it on stack overflow, and it still just doesn't click for me.
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