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From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GHM debriefing
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:48:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1_imn0XDOL-o=ZkPepw6OYtjtoZnk8xXwqEyy2EAMyuE8sHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg5769n9.fsf@gnu.org>

> Slides online, and hopefully videos will follow:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/help/#talks

Nice slides!

> On that topic, I had an interesting discussion with Nicolas Petton of
> Emacs about patch tracking.  Nicolas explained that Gitlab (free
> software) doesn’t have some of the technical defects that GitHub has; in
> particular it can rebase instead of merging, thereby helping preserve a
> linear history, and it can be dealt with “mostly” by email.  Perhaps we
> could try running an instance and see what it’s like.

Calling it a technical defect is a little harsh... ;-) Gitlab is going to be an
improvement over the existing state of affairs. Just spent an hour fixing
the u-boot [0] patch manually to apply to a fresh tree. (Line wrapping mostly,
removing some hunks and adding a newline at the end)

[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01414.html

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-28 22:09 GHM debriefing Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-29 12:48 ` David Craven [this message]
2016-08-29 13:50 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-29 15:20 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-08-30 15:57   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 13:40 ` ng0
2016-08-31 13:48   ` David Craven
2016-08-31 22:28 ` Clément Lassieur
2016-08-31 23:08   ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-01  6:41   ` ng0
2016-09-01 12:24   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-03  8:05   ` Hartmut Goebel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-29 21:52 Ludovic Courtès

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