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Re: Bug! Git merge also fails with a wrong error message

From
YGYves Goergen <nospam.list@unclassified.de>
Date
Jan 13, 2012, 18:59 UTC
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<20120113175617.GE2850@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>
On 13.01.2012 18:56 CE(S)T, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:
> You still haven't told us what version of (msys)git you're using nor
> have you provided a transcript of your session or found a minimal
> reproducible example.
In case one of my other mails didn't arrive, the Git version is 1.7.8.

There is no session transcript because I use TortoiseGit and I'm not going to add a screencast here.

> Gmane is a mailing list viewer and there /only/ is the real maling
> list. The e-mail you provided for yourself looks bogus, but if it
> isn't, you'll notice we communicate via e-mail.

Well, I am very confused. Starting from git-scm.com, the only support site is a mailing list, and the hyperlink on that word sends me to Gmane which says I am in a newsgroup called "gmane.comp.version-control.git". Since I don't have access to the news system, I need to use the Gmane website. I don't know exactly what it is. I know mailing lists, but that doesn't look like one at all. There's not even a subscription page or address. For users of the modern web who are not familiar with 70s nntp technology and cannot use a mailing list by merely knowing its address, this is very support-unfriendly. I almost would have considered that the official Git website doesn't want to offer any support at all. In that case I would likely have searched for an alternative and switched right away. Assuming I could have extracted the remainders of my source code from the broken Git repository.

So am I now subscribed to that "git@vger.kernel.org" mailing list and do my posts show up there? I have no idea what's going on, neither in my repository, nor in this mailing list. Confusing and intransparent.

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  1. Yves GoergenJan 12, 2012
  2. Holger HellmuthJan 13, 2012
  3. Yves GoergenJan 13, 2012
  4. Holger HellmuthJan 13, 2012
  5. Yves GoergenJan 15, 2012
  6. Holger HellmuthJan 16, 2012
  7. Yves GoergenJan 16, 2012
  8. Jeff KingJan 16, 2012
  9. Yves GoergenJan 16, 2012
  10. Jeff KingJan 16, 2012
  11. Yves GoergenJan 17, 2012
  12. Thomas RastJan 16, 2012
  13. Erik Faye-LundJan 16, 2012
  14. Yves GoergenJan 16, 2012
  15. Bug! Git merge also fails with a wrong error messageYves Goergen, Jan 13, 2012
  16. Jeff KingJan 13, 2012
  17. Yves GoergenJan 13, 2012
  18. Jeff KingJan 13, 2012
  19. Yves GoergenJan 13, 2012
  20. Carlos Martín NietoJan 13, 2012
  21. Yves GoergenJan 13, 2012
  22. Jakub NarebskiJan 13, 2012
  23. Yves GoergenJan 15, 2012
  24. Jakub NarebskiJan 15, 2012
  25. Thomas RastJan 17, 2012
  26. Yves GoergenJan 17, 2012
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