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

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2012, 19:34 UTC
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Yves Goergen <nospam.list@unclassified.de> writes:
> On 13.01.2012 18:56 CE(S)T, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:
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> > 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".
Note however that the _text_ of the hyperlink is
  git@vger.kernel.org mailing list
> 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.

GMane is an e-mail to news gateway, and a mailing list archive. It exposes mailing list as a newsgroup, so it can be read and written to via newsreader (via Usenet).

Perhaps better solution would be to use mailto:git@vger.kernel.org link, and add a sentence about archives / alternative interfaces.

>                                  I know mailing lists, but that
> doesn't look like one at all. There's not even a subscription page or
> address.

git@vger.kernel.org is a public non-subscribe mailing list; you don't need to subscribe to post requests there. Note that it is a custom on this mailing list to always include all participants in given (sub)thread directly in Cc, so you should get responses to your emails even if you are not subscribed.

[...]
> 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 non-transparent.

If you send email to git@vger.kernel.org, it would also appear on GMane.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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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
  27. Thomas RastJan 19, 2012

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