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Post by banjwoorri » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 1:12 AM UTC

scuff3d wrote: post #285

derefr wrote: post #267

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> Turns out CLI interfaces by themselves are (from a usability perspective) incomplete for the kind of collaboration git was designed to facilitate. git was designed to facilitate the collaboration scheme of the Linux Kernel Mailing List, which is, as you might guess... a mailing list. Rather than a pull-request (which tries to repurpose git's branching infrastructure to support collaboration), the intended unit of i…

I'm assuming a "patch" is a group of commits. So would a "patch series" be similar to GitLabs notion of dependent MRs?

Post by throwaway2037 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 2:12 PM UTC

haskellshill wrote: post #414

throwaway2037 wrote: post #411

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> just like knowing that the commits are nodes of a DAG Hello gatekeeping! I have used Git for more than 10 years. I could not explain all of the ins-and-outs of commits, especially that they are "nodes of a DAG". I do just fine, and Git is wonderful to me. Another related example: I would say that 90%+ of .NET and Java users don't intimately understand their virtual machine that runs their code. Hot take: That is fi…

"Intimately understand the VM" is not the same as knowing what data structure you're using. It'd be comparable to not knowing the difference between an array and a linked list. Sure you may call it gatekeeping but likewise I may call your style willful ignorance of the basics of the tools you're using. Have you never used rebase or cherry-pick?

    > Have you never used rebase or cherry-pick?