Re: ACTION 2023-02-07-a: Steven to make Pull Request for Unicode test

>> Where is this pull request?
>
> You tell me! I did one, and as I said got lots of text output, none of
> which said there was anything wrong, none of which said it had been
> successful, so I'm none the wiser.

Intersting. I don’t see any record of the pull request in the repo, so
it’s hard to guess what the problem was.

>> Right. You seem to have directly pushed two new files to the master
>> branch.
>
> I decided that that was the only way I was going to succeed in a short
> amount of time.

Fair enough. If you’d succeeded in making the PR, I’d have run a test
against the proposed changes before we accepted them. As it is, I’ll run
them against those files and just raise issues if I find problems.

I do think it’s important to work out how to make PRs before you make
spec changes because we have lots of good support now for things like
automated diff markup that’s only going to apply to PRs.

>> It’s a sharp tool, but a very useful one.
>
> Apparently. Doesn't work for me, and sincerely, has some of the worst
> documentation I have ever seen...

Yes, it’s quite different from the version control systems that preceded
it and I don’t think the default “man git” documentation does a very
good job of setting the context. There are better resources out there.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica