On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 8:08 AM Thomas Koenig via Gdb <g...@sourceware.org> wrote: > > [For the fortran people: Discussion on gcc@] > > Just a general remark. > > There are people, such as myself, who regularly mess up > their git repositories because they have no mental model > of what git is doing (case in point: The Fortran unsigned > branch, which I managed to put into an unrepairable state > despite considerable help from people who tried to help me > fix it). This is especially true of volunteer maintainers, > who are still the mainstay of gfortran.
++. Thousands of upvotes on Stack Overflow questions about simple Git tasks indicate usability problems in Git, and not a great question on social media. Confer, <https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/351700>. > Whatever you end up doing, consider such maintainers, and > if they still can contribute or would simply give up. > If what you end up doing is too complicated, it may end up > severely impacting the gfortran project (and possibly others). Jeff
