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Re: IETF Git and GitHub tutorial

Sarah Banks <sbanks@encrypted.net> Fri, 11 October 2019 16:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: IETF Git and GitHub tutorial
From: Sarah Banks <sbanks@encrypted.net>
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My WG has a lot of first timers. And a lot of non engineers - technical folks, SQA for example, but non engineers. FWIW everything Rich just said would be over their heads, in that they don't check in/check out code on a daily basis. I strongly +1 a thorough walk through guide for the typical tasks. 

Thanks
Sarah


> On Oct 11, 2019, at 9:00 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
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> 
>>   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.
> 
> The work-around is simple and probably follows what most people do, anyway: do not re-use a branch name for different items of work. (Arguably that's an implied git best practice.) In fact, GitHub pull requests use the branch name, so I would not be surprised if doing this (which you shouldn't) can lead to problems anyway. 
>

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