Re: Gitlab Migration

[Drew DeVault]

On Sun Aug 29, 2021 at 9:38 AM CEST, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Rebasing is not just intimidating, it has real problems as well. One
> problem that particularly bothers us is that it could, in some
> circumstances, cause the same commit to be present more than once.
>
> I find a hard requirement to use rebase to be user-unfriendly, because
> some of us simply don't want to rebase, for reasons of preserving the
> original history of the development. Is rebasing really a requirement
> in SourceHut?

No, it's not a requirement. It's just something I think is a good idea.

How do you end up with the same commit twice?

> > It depends on all of the participants Cc'ing you. It is common practice
> > to "reply all" on mailing lists for this reason.
>
> Too many people forget to "Reply All", we have this all the time on
> our current bug tracker. Is there a way to arrange for automatic
> subscription to a discussion once you post to that discussion?

This is probably something which can be done. Can you file a ticket?
Send an email to ~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht@todo.sr.ht with the title in the
subject line and the body as markdown.

> > In a sense. Because you don't have to subscribe to the mailing list to
> > participate in a thread, you won't get emails unless the sender has Cc'd
> > you. But you cannot stop them from Cc'ing you, and neither can we,
> > unless you ask nicely - which is not a software solution. Such emails
> > are not relayed by our mail servers, so it's out of our control.
> > 
> > Subscribing to individual threads is also prioritized.
>
> Does this mean that currently starting a discussion doesn't
> automatically subscribe me to that discussion?

Yep. See previous answer.