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Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 37

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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 30, 2018, 16:07 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 2:02 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Christian Couder wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 11:41 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't have a good summary yet, but I think a section about the
>> > discussion regarding the new recreate-merges and rebasing merges
>> > that's been on going might be useful?
>>
>> Yeah sure, we would gladly accept a summary of this discussion.
>
> I would *love* a summary of that discussion, especially since it got
> pretty unwieldy (and partially out of hand, but that part probably does
> not need a lot of detail apart from the adjective "heated").
>
>> > a lot of that discussion occurred prior to git-merge (tho it's been
>> > ongoing since then?).
>>
>> If you want to take the latest discussions into account, the summary
>> could be either split into two parts, one for this edition and the
>> other one for the next edition. Or we could wait and have the whole
>> summary in the next edition.
>
> Jake, I do not know about your availability, but I would love it if you
> could take a stab, as I trust you to be unbiased. I would not trust myself
> to be unbiased because (as everybody saw who cared to read) I got a little
> bit too emotional and should have stayed more professional.
>
> Thanks,
> Dscho

I hope to be able to make a summary of the discussion as best I can. It may take a bit as there is a lot of mails to read. I agree that a good summary should come from someone outside the discussion to reduce emotional bias.

Thanks, Jake

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