The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant
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@Zecc said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
nowadays they look like the one on the right.
If your git graph starts looking like the bottom of a printed circuit board, you may want to switch professions.
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@Zecc The biggest problem with git is that it doesn't really track what branches were called, but rather just the current history; branches are just labellings of commits that handle being moved in a particular way. That means history viewers sometimes get very confused about what is what and produce confusing pictures like the one on the right. (The confusion is from picking the wrong fork to be the trunk from which the other one branches.)
The Github history viewer is better than most, but still gets things wrong sometimes.
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@Mason_Wheeler so you're blaming the tool rather than the tools who use the tool inadvisably. Good job,
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
@Zecc And I blame people who chose to use a tool that treats branches and merges as a magic hammer.
Right, we already know that you prefer to pretend that merges don't happen.
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@DogsB said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
@boomzilla said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
@TimeBandit said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
it doesn't require a degree in graph theory to make sense of!
I don't understand the tool != It's a bad tool
"Tool A is easy to understand. Tool B is difficult to understand. They both do fundamentally the same thing." = Tool A is a better tool.
Ah so this is why you ride a skateboard everywhere instead of driving a car.
To be fair, if I could ride a skateboard without breaking my arse I probably would try.
At least you don't need to worry about breaking your head.
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@Carnage said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
So,s ay you have SVN, when SVN gets unrestorably corrupted, how do you restore that SVN to a workings state using itself
The way I did it was to move my repo off of SourceForge and convert to git on github. The corruption was passed by creating a "fake" commit that spanned the corrupted commits.
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@HardwareGeek said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
@DogsB said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant:
To be fair, if I could ride a skateboard without breaking my arse I probably would try.
At least you don't need to worry about breaking your head.
In Ireland they worry about having sense knocked into them rather than out