On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 17:32 +, Chad wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:42 AM Bernd Sitzmann wrote:
> >
> > I think it would be great to favor git fetch and git rebase over git pull
> > and merge[1] in the beginners documentation so people don't start out with
> > bad habits.
> >
> > [1]
In case it wasn't obvious:
That was mostly intended as humor, though I do find the Help:Git_rebase
article to be very one sided.
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Mukunda Modell
wrote:
> I should stop myself here and just echo what Chad said but I feel
> compelled to say
I should stop myself here and just echo what Chad said but I feel compelled
to say more.
Skip past the quoted text for the tl;dr version.
That article[1] comes across as incredibly condescending. Is the purpose to
keep people ignorant and oppressed? Prevent them from understanding nuance
by
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:42 AM Bernd Sitzmann wrote:
> I think it would be great to favor git fetch and git rebase over git pull
> and merge[1] in the beginners documentation so people don't start out with
> bad habits.
>
> [1]
I think it would be great to favor git fetch and git rebase over git pull
and merge[1] in the beginners documentation so people don't start out with
bad habits.
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Git_rebase
Bernd
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
2016-05-23 14:22 GMT+03:00 Andre Klapper :
> Some stuff I did not touch (as perfect is the enemy of good).
> For example, I'm still wondering about the role of
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_for_dummies compared to
>
[For your info]
I've spend some time in the last weeks rewriting and cleaning up our
technical Git / Gerrit / Code Review documentation on mediawiki.org.
135 edits later, things feel a bit cleaner. :)
=== Changes ===
There is a central Git/Gerrit "Troubleshooting" page linked from the
most