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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by adastra22 on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:56AM (#43287658)
It matters a lot when maintaining long lived forks of active upstream projects, especially with invasive changes that get tripped up on rebases.
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by sunshowers on Friday March 07, 2025 @05:14PM (#43295360)
That seems like an algorithm issue more than a fundamental data structure issue, right?
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by adastra22 on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:53PM (#43296807)
Patch commutivity would make rebasing vs. merge commits effectively the same thing. That’s where it impacts the data structure.
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Re:I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare other... by sunshowers on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:26PM (#43302249)
From the perspective of lawyers who come knocking, it seems incorrect to treat rebases and merges as the same.
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