RfC: grant gitlab "guest" just for the asking

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Wed Jan 4 00:16:17 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> I see no reason to use Guest access on a project as open/public as ours.

I have a guess that it enables email push notifications on repo commits
and issue updates.

> What would help me is a guide to the workflow and using git and/or gitlab.
> 
> git has a bazillion bells and whistles.  I can read the help/man page and 
> usually get it to do something after I get to the right sub-command.  But 
> some of them are pretty complicated.

Yes.  Yes, they are.  This pain is universal.

> One thing I'd like to be able to do is fixup a commit if I find a bug before 
> I do a push.  That seems like a reasonably common problem.  It's also 
> important since the bug might break bisecting.

This might help:

http://ohshitgit.com/
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