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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #291970 |
Post edited: Huge section on Merge Tools |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291970 |
Post edited: Numbered substeps. |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291970 |
Post edited: Split up a multistep item |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291970 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What is the general process for merging two git branches, reviewing edits on each branch? There are two major sections to this answer: the Git part and the conflict resolution part. It wasn't clear at first which one was intended by the question, but both are important for a full answer. Git workflow Workflow summary 1. Make a temporary branch in case things go badly. 2. Start t... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291928 |
Post edited: Un-prettyprint the error message. |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291928 |
I can't find any evidence of the link you refer to by TemporalWolf on "Bare exceptions." Maybe edit it in? (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291928 |
Suggested edit: Un-prettyprint the error message. (more) |
helpful | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291349 |
Post edited: Fix typo. Markdown headings. |
— | 5 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291349 |
Suggested edit: Fix typo. Markdown headings. (more) |
helpful | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291704 |
Not "the" answer, just a comment: I think some locales actually use a `'` as the digit separator (Switzerland? others?), whereas to my knowledge, none use an underscore. The other ones I know of (space, `,`, `.`) are already taken by other syntactic meaning. Also, some of them are different in differ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291667 |
Post edited: Markdown formatting. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291667 |
Suggested edit: Markdown formatting. (more) |
helpful | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291667 |
Are you sure `HOME_DIRECTORY` is a string? It could be a class where the `/` operator is set up to do something cute with `__truediv__()`. If I had to guess, it's probably returning that same object type, but with the second operand appended to the path. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291535 |
Post edited: Mention marking extraneous whitespace. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291535 |
Post edited: Link the discovery in the comment thread. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291533 |
Nice. Maybe write up a self-answer, so it's not buried in a comment thread? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291533 |
`vim /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/markdown.vim`? I poked around at the `skipwhite` entries, but none them jumped out as suspicious. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291535 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Syntax match any 2 spaces at end of line You could explicitly match the other whitespace, too, to see if that gets around an existing rule.[^default] Here are two ways to do that:[^magic] Match the other whitespace in another rule You could use a `\@=` lookahead to match all the whitespace before your special rule. This might cajole y... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291533 |
Post edited: Fix typo. Block quotes in case we get viml syntax highlighting sometime. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291533 |
Suggested edit: Fix typo. Block quotes in case we get viml syntax highlighting sometime. (more) |
helpful | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291155 |
Post edited: Tone down some language. Subheadings rather than list items. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291479 |
Post edited: Semantic headings. Footnote. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291479 |
Suggested edit: Semantic headings. Footnote. (more) |
helpful | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290490 |
Post edited: Bulletize the Upshot. Move the chart above the first heading. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291433 |
How far have you gotten in your attempts? What seemed promising? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291277 |
Post edited: Fix the last code block. A bit more formatting here and there. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291277 |
Suggested edit: Fix the last code block. A bit more formatting here and there. (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291271 |
Post edited: headings. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291272 |
Post edited: Proofreading. Add new tag. Searchable text for the tech elements. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291272 |
Suggested edit: Proofreading. Add new tag. Searchable text for the tech elements. (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291269 |
Post edited: Lots of proofreading |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291269 |
Suggested edit: Lots of proofreading (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291271 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Understanding the Matrix protocol vs Matrix server and what can be implemented from scratch Specification You understand correctly. [Matrix][] is an interface for federated encrypted communication. From the first page of the spec: > Matrix defines a set of open APIs for decentralised communication, suitable for securely publishing, persisting and subscribing to data over a global open... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #281415 |
Post edited: Fix table markdown |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291235 |
If you _really_ hate leftover `.gitkeep`, you can write a commit (or push) hook that rejects commits where `.gitkeep` isn't the only file in its directory. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281415 |
Suggested edit: Fix table markdown (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291211 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Filter stashes by pathspec The documentation for `git stash list` says > ### [`list []`][doc] > List the stash entries that you currently have. Each stash entry is listed with its name (e.g. `stash@{0}` is the latest entry, `stash@{1}` is the one before, etc.), the name of the branch that was current when the entry was mad... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291209 |
Post edited: Fix pseudocode sample in case of multiple answers per question. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291209 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to easily support time frame grouping in queries? In SQL Server 2022+, there's a dedicated binning function called `DATEBUCKET`. > Each of these statements increments `DATEBUCKET` with a bucket width of `1` from the origin time: > > ```sql > DECLARE @date DATETIME2 = '2020-04-30 21:21:21'; > SELECT 'Week', DATEBUCKET(WEEK, 1, @date) > UNION ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291196 |
Post edited: Semantic headings |
— | 8 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291196 |
Suggested edit: Semantic headings (more) |
helpful | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290998 |
Post edited: More research |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291155 |
Post edited: Clarify good-first |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291155 |
Post edited: Delete remnant of deleted footnote. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291155 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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