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Re: GHM debriefing
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David Craven |
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Re: GHM debriefing |
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Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:48:14 +0200 |
> Slides online, and hopefully videos will follow:
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> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/help/#talks
Nice slides!
> On that topic, I had an interesting discussion with Nicolas Petton of
> Emacs about patch tracking. Nicolas explained that Gitlab (free
> software) doesn’t have some of the technical defects that GitHub has; in
> particular it can rebase instead of merging, thereby helping preserve a
> linear history, and it can be dealt with “mostly” by email. Perhaps we
> could try running an instance and see what it’s like.
Calling it a technical defect is a little harsh... ;-) Gitlab is going to be an
improvement over the existing state of affairs. Just spent an hour fixing
the u-boot [0] patch manually to apply to a fresh tree. (Line wrapping mostly,
removing some hunks and adding a newline at the end)
[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01414.html