From: Yves Goergen Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:59:34 GMT Subject: Re: Bug! Git merge also fails with a wrong error message Message-ID: <4F107F16.30009@unclassified.de> In-Reply-To: <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. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de