http:\/\/sethrobertson.github.io\/GitFixUm\/fixup.html<\/p>\n
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There should be more fix-it-yourself tools like this.<\/p>\n
Although if nothing else, it speaks to how overly (and seemingly unnecessarily) complicated git is.<\/p>\n
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Did I rant about this facet of github? I finally hit upon the single most poignant problem with github. This is really a git problem, but the problem is forced on you more strongly with github.<\/p>\n
By being a distributed repository, there’s bits and copies of it all over the place, and the defining bit of information that is missing is Which One Is Important.<\/p>\n
You can figure out that this fork came from that repo and that repo came from that fork, but that doesn’t mean the most recent fork is the correct one.<\/p>\n
One I make a repo somewhere it’s stuck there forever, because if I try and move it, by forking and using the new one… now I have two and there’s no obvious way that I can tell to mark one repository as being the “right” one. Maybe I forked something and made some changes, but the whole thing was a bad idea and I just want to use the original. But I go away and come back a month later and I have no idea which is the one I should do builds off of.<\/p>\n
With a central repository, there is really no question where you go to do a build.<\/p>\n
You can kind solve the problem a little with git by making a bare repository and just having one, and then it’s a little more obvious that THAT’S the one. The bare-ness of it, is a flag saying that this one is more important than all the others, this is the one where I put the live stuff.<\/p>\n
But github doesn’t have that. Everything is a repo exactly like every other repo, forked or not.<\/p>\n
They just need a flag saying “important” and you can’t flag more than one that way. Something like that.<\/p>\n
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