i really appreciate that we can have great conversations here on mastodon if I’m extremely careful about every single thing I post and often include disclaimers (“please don’t explain rebase to me”) to avoid repetitive annoying replies that I can predict
but I still feel like I need to be SO much more careful about my posts than I was on Twitter and I wish it wasn’t like that
the replies to this are pretty bad, a lot of
- "well it's not a problem for ME”
- "just don't read the comments"'
- "have you heard of blocking/muting”
- "have you ever considered that on social media in general you need to be careful about what you say because folks don't have much context”
- "tech people are just all assholes”
- "no julia, the dozens of people trying to explain to you what a git branch is are just trying to HELP, you should be grateful”
on a positive note I really appreciate everyone who replies to my questions on here, you all are GREAT.
in particular this thread on git config options is probably the best resource I've ever seen on configuring git, I'm still working on synthesizing the replies because there are so many good ones https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/111885363143321068
what are your favourite git config options to set? Right now I only really have `git config push.autosetupremote true` and `git config init.defaultBranch main` set in my ~/.gitconfig, curious about what other people set (diff algorithm patience? a custom diff/merge tool? enable rerere?)
@b0rk I think your guides are absolutely amazing.
They both make the topics approachable, and capture the common questions most people have. It reads so much better than a man-page or a bland summary. They have such personality! Please continue to do all you do!
Julia Evans
Michael Kohne
Raineer 
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Andy Herd
peter sibley
AJ
mmu_man
jyc