Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 37

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 30, 2018, 09:02 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1803301059450.5026@qfpub.tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0wWiivjzJ29-RPVyOxkmbFACXTwHLyPrMdsUsW__RsYQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Christian Couder wrote:

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> 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").

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> > 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