Re: Avoiding uninteresting merges in Cairo

Carl Worth [off-list ref] wrote:

One thing I've been meaning to do is to write up a more complete
introduction on using git to manage cairo's tree to put into cairo's
wiki or so, (it would have helped a newcomer like jwatt here).

I saw three things happen to poor jwatt that really threw him for
a loop, and I think they are all more likely related to Git than
to the Cairo project specifically:

 * His user.name/user.email is probably not what he wanted;

 * His Cygwin/Windows system made some *.c/*.c files 0755 without
   him realizing it;

 * gitweb made it appear as though a whole lot of Carl's recent
   work was somehow undone in the merge.

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