Fossil SCM

Small tweaks to previous

wyoung 2020-11-02 09:04 trunk
Commit 749d919ae9fbae4777c5b368e9716cea8334dc21ce3e31f285a5494b5449ddc7
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--- www/gitusers.md
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discrepancy.
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You may have noticed the difference between my story’s final command and
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the one given on Stack Overflow: `--first-parent` versus `--no-merges`.
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As far as I can tell, the SO answer is wrong, a conclusion I came to
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-while writing this reply and finding that it didn’t do what I expected.
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-None of the answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option. This is
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+while writing this case study and finding that the command didn’t do what the SO answer claimed it did.
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+None of the other answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option, either. This is
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one of the sneaky problems with complicated commands: people copy them
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around from place to place without trying to understand them first, so
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errors propagate.
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But hark! The same Stack Overflow answer gives a much simpler
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--- www/gitusers.md
+++ www/gitusers.md
@@ -850,12 +850,12 @@
850 discrepancy.
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852 You may have noticed the difference between my story’s final command and
853 the one given on Stack Overflow: `--first-parent` versus `--no-merges`.
854 As far as I can tell, the SO answer is wrong, a conclusion I came to
855 while writing this reply and finding that it didn’t do what I expected.
856 None of the answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option. This is
857 one of the sneaky problems with complicated commands: people copy them
858 around from place to place without trying to understand them first, so
859 errors propagate.
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861 But hark! The same Stack Overflow answer gives a much simpler
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--- www/gitusers.md
+++ www/gitusers.md
@@ -850,12 +850,12 @@
850 discrepancy.
851
852 You may have noticed the difference between my story’s final command and
853 the one given on Stack Overflow: `--first-parent` versus `--no-merges`.
854 As far as I can tell, the SO answer is wrong, a conclusion I came to
855 while writing this case study and finding that the command didn’t do what the SO answer claimed it did.
856 None of the other answers on that page give the `--no-merges` option, either. This is
857 one of the sneaky problems with complicated commands: people copy them
858 around from place to place without trying to understand them first, so
859 errors propagate.
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861 But hark! The same Stack Overflow answer gives a much simpler
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