Notices by Adam Johnson :django: :python: (adamchainz@fosstodon.org)

#GitHub tip:

Don’t post “Any updates?” style comments on open source threads. Any updates would be there already. Open source is a gift; bugging maintainers acts like you're entitled to results. I just mark such comments as spam.

If you want to see something done, do something to help: research specifications, find an existing implementation, write a test case, draft the docs, write a draft implementation, do some code review, test the PR locally, or just anything to help the project.

@mgorny For a single character, ~ and ^ are equivalent.

Where they differ when you add a number suffix. ~<n> means “n commits back”, like ~3 means “3 commits before”. ^<n> means “the nth parent”, like for a merge commit, ^2 means the second parent.

~ always traverses the first parent, which means the target branch for a merge—pretty much what you always want.

✍️ New post with a tip for undoing 'git pull', as I helped a client figure out yesterday.

#Git

https://adamj.eu/tech/2024/12/31/git-undo-pull-reflog/

@paulox Still open to suggestions though

@paulox Yeah, I wanted to avoid a Takahe mention because it’s not for beginners. bookwyrm is a different non-ActivityPub network, right?

✍️ New post on joining the #Django community on #Mastodon

💁♂️ Share with your non-Fediversing friends!

https://adamj.eu/tech/2024/02/10/django-join-community-mastodon/

Good luck to anyone picking up old stalled #Git branches.

My post on incrementally rebasing a Git branch may help: https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/10/18/git-rebase-branch-incrementally/

@mattl pnuch!