Hi Charles,
As someone who struggled though learning these topics over the last few years,
I'd point out that there is no right way to do this stuff. You can use the Git
command line tools, You can use a UI. You can keep branches locally, or publish
everything to GitHub. As Parth wisely noted back when I started with Drill, Git
will be confusing until you "get" what's going on, then it seems pretty simple.
While Drill should probably not try to provide a full Git tutorial, I notice
that many projects do provide a set of instructions for common tasks. These
don't explain the why and how, they just act as a reference, which is pretty
handy. Anyone know of a good writeup for another project we can reference?
Maybe we can draft something (ideally on a Wiki, but since we don't have one,
in the developer documentation) that follows the material of other projects,
but with a Drill-specific spin.
Thanks,
- Paul
On Saturday, March 2, 2019, 5:00:13 PM PST, Charles Givre
<[email protected]> wrote:
All,
Speaking as a non-developer, I wonder if it might be helpful to put
instructions on the CONTRIBUTING.md file that explain how to:
1. Rebase a branch
2. Squash commits
I know for developers these things seem trivial, but for non-developers or
people who don’t work with git on a regular basis, it can be quite confusing.
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a few non developers submit PRs and they seem
to be stuck on these steps.
Thanks,
— C
