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Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by junon »

yankput wrote: post #7
keepamovin wrote: post #3

I love this. This is how it was done back in the days of usenet. People would email patches to the linux kernel. Hackers, working alone, late at night, strange times, strange places. Cultivating their work and skills and then ... shoot ... sending an email! Their contribution. So cool! Maybe we should go back to this. Get rid of the whole github thing. Every group their own little mailing list. Laboring in private!

sr.ht does that I don’t find it very user friendly (well, at all), but if you want a git forge that does that, you can use it.

This is my experience as well. I love the hacker culture associated with it and it's very fun to use e.g. Mutt, sr.ht, and git-send-email together, but it's anything but efficient and straightforward. I ultimately moved away from sr.ht for that reason.

Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by Semaphor »

yankput wrote: post #7
keepamovin wrote: post #3

I love this. This is how it was done back in the days of usenet. People would email patches to the linux kernel. Hackers, working alone, late at night, strange times, strange places. Cultivating their work and skills and then ... shoot ... sending an email! Their contribution. So cool! Maybe we should go back to this. Get rid of the whole github thing. Every group their own little mailing list. Laboring in private!

sr.ht does that I don’t find it very user friendly (well, at all), but if you want a git forge that does that, you can use it.

I contributed to a project using this, once. I decided that unless I’m highly invested, it’s just not worth the hassle.

Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by nine_k »

keepamovin wrote: post #3

I love this. This is how it was done back in the days of usenet. People would email patches to the linux kernel. Hackers, working alone, late at night, strange times, strange places. Cultivating their work and skills and then ... shoot ... sending an email! Their contribution. So cool! Maybe we should go back to this. Get rid of the whole github thing. Every group their own little mailing list. Laboring in private!

If it was so long ago, it likely predates git, and was more painful than it is now.

(Git was introduced in 2005, while Linux was first released in 1991; fourteen years separate them.)

Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by dustfinger »

Etheryte wrote: post #5
manojlds wrote: post #4

Weird way to list and sort OSs there. Microsoft Windows but last, due to the W I guess but macOS has no Apple in it.

The official name of the operating system built by Microsoft is Microsoft Windows. For the OS developed by Apple it's macOS. These are their actual names, this has no personal bias in it.

I think manojlds point is why the OS names are not sorted by the first word in their name as opposed to the last word in their name. Microsoft Windows should have come right after macOS, if the list was sorted alphabetically by first word, then last. It must be sorted by last, then first though. I guess it is a bit of a strange choice since most OS distributions seem to have a single word for their name, making Microsoft Windows appear miss-sorted.

Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by shmichael »

Amending commits, while having the advantage of keeping the git tree pristine at every single point, is incredibly uncomfortable for async workflows such as the one suggested, where your review might take hours/days and you want to continue coding in a forked branch. Upstreaming any code review changes becomes a pain as git treats the two branches as completely distinct.

Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by [deleted] »

Etheryte wrote: post #5
manojlds wrote: post #4

Weird way to list and sort OSs there. Microsoft Windows but last, due to the W I guess but macOS has no Apple in it.

The official name of the operating system built by Microsoft is Microsoft Windows. For the OS developed by Apple it's macOS. These are their actual names, this has no personal bias in it.

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Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by mikemcquaid »

keepamovin wrote: post #3

I love this. This is how it was done back in the days of usenet. People would email patches to the linux kernel. Hackers, working alone, late at night, strange times, strange places. Cultivating their work and skills and then ... shoot ... sending an email! Their contribution. So cool! Maybe we should go back to this. Get rid of the whole github thing. Every group their own little mailing list. Laboring in private!

Did you contribute to open source in those days? I did a little (KDE patches to mailing lists before I got Subversion access) and: it was _awful_.

You think merging/rebasing/resolving conflicts is a pain now? Doing the same thing via email was _so_ much worse.

GitHub has made some parts of open source worse (e.g. how easy it is to now open poor issues while ignoring required information compared to Bugzilla) but the contribution side is so much nicer now.

(Bias/context: former GitHub employee, former KDE committer, current Homebrew project leader)

Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by rightbyte »

terminalcommand wrote: post #9
keepamovin wrote: post #3

I love this. This is how it was done back in the days of usenet. People would email patches to the linux kernel. Hackers, working alone, late at night, strange times, strange places. Cultivating their work and skills and then ... shoot ... sending an email! Their contribution. So cool! Maybe we should go back to this. Get rid of the whole github thing. Every group their own little mailing list. Laboring in private!

Many oss projects still do this, don't they. I am subscribed to debian and python mail lists. Debian's lists are highly active.

E.g. GCC does it by mail.

Re: Email and Git = <3

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Post by diggan »

dustfinger wrote: post #15
Etheryte wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The official name of the operating system built by Microsoft is Microsoft Windows. For the OS developed by Apple it's macOS. These are their actual names, this has no personal bias in it.

I think manojlds point is why the OS names are not sorted by the first word in their name as opposed to the last word in their name. Microsoft Windows should have come right after macOS, if the list was sorted alphabetically by first word, then last. It must be sorted by last, then first though. I guess it is a bit of a strange choice since most OS distributions seem to have a single word for their name, making Micro…

Windows is 100% in the bottom not because of the name but because it is proprietary. The author of the website (Drew DeVault) is a devout FOSS proponent.
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