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Re: [Outreachy] Introduction and Interest in Contributing to the Git Community

From
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2023, 08:47 UTC
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Hi Isoken,
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 7:48 AM Isoken Ibizugbe <isokenjune@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> I hope you're doing well. I did some research,
Nice that you did some research and are mentioning it.

However please reply inline instead of top-posting (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style). On https://git.github.io/General-Microproject-Information/ there is a section called "Some conventions and tips" which has a "Reply inline" subsection about this.

> but unfortunately, I
> couldn't find any clear documentation stating that setup tests should
> be renamed.
Ok, so it's indeed better to find something else to work on.
> However, I did find another issue that I think I could
> work on - 'Amend error messages and prompts of various (sub)commands
> #635'. Should I go on with it?

Yeah, I think it's a good idea to work on this. See this discussion thread where we give advice to Naomi about improving error messages as microproject:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/CACS=G2zsJxP+NWuosZyrFGctJptHNYTrULErRo_Ns41KeMuMqA@mail.gmail.com/#r

Thanks, Christian.

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