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Re: IETF Git and GitHub tutorial

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Fri, 11 October 2019 14:06 UTC

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Daniel Migault <mglt.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Thanks for initiating this page, this is really useful. I think it
    > would be useful to have a page detailing to someone that has never used
    > git and that is willing to send comment or propose text to a wg
    > document.  * how do I comment using github * how do I purpose text.
    > For that scenario, we may only limit ourselves to the web interface.

And there is a serious limitation, which is that it pretty much impossible to
rebase with only the web interface, so after having submitted an edit, once
it is accepted, one winds up with a tree (fork) you can not use again.

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