Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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So both the layout and DOM teams at Mozilla have a strong culture of producing small patches where each step compiles. This makes code review of large changes much easier, and also is useful for bisection when debugging regressions. (Other teams too, but probably less strongly.)
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Not clear to me how to dig back to get the patch that I just wrote during the rebase and then I got something else merged into it, after the fact, and then continue the rebase to fix the conflicts on top.
And ways to clean up after the footgun don't mean there isn't a footgun.
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That doesn't work if you're developing a series of changes that are supposed to make sense separately.
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(I should note that most of the time in an interactive rebase I type "git commit --amend --no-edit" because I know I don't want to edit the commit message; that also means I don't see the UI that might have given me a hint that stuff was going to go wrong.)
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Is this a well known problem? Do other people hit this a lot? Is it a well known "be really careful not to do this, or you'll lose your work"?
Because not losing work is one of the core values of version control.
And I'm *this* close to switching back to hg.
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If you mess up in conflict resolution mode and type "git commit --amend" (the one difference from edit mode), what happens? The patch you're resolving conflicts in gets magically merged into the patch below it. Two changes, tangled together. One commit message lost.
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I do much more of the "edit" mode than the conflict resolution mode. In edit mode, you edit the files, "git add" them, "git commit --amend", and then "git rebase --continue". But in conflict resolution mode, you edit the files, "git add" them, and "git rebase --continue".
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My work generally involves developing series of patches meant to be on top of each other. With git, this involves a lot of "git rebase -i" (interactive rebase). The problem I hit is the differences between interactive rebase's "edit" mode and rebase's conflict resolution mode.
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Since I've started using git I've lost work and had to rewrite it twice. Both times I ended up with two commits merged together that should have been separate. The second time was just now, and I realized what I did.
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So for a long time I did my mozilla development using Mercurial (hg) and patch queues (mq). I've recently switched to using git instead. My mercurial workflow was a bit odd, but it had the advantage that I never lost my work and had to rewrite it. Never.
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Any idea, given how full the buses are, what the people/minute counts would look like for a bus lane and how that would compare to the car lanes?
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Many of tthe candidates are doing a bad job of explaining that the debate about criminalization of illegal entry is about whether people can be jailed, and not about whether they've broken the law or can be deported.
Is this a side effect of the algorithm used to scatter the points for multi-unit buildings? That is, is this a small number of multi-unit buildings scattered over all of some tracts, but not others? (Some large buildings were developed along the river before and after 2000-2010.)
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On the other hand, if I want to travel further for better Chinese food I'd go to:
- Classic Guilin Rice Noodles (Cupertino/San José border)
- Full House Dumpling (Taiwanese, Fremont)
- wonderful (Hunan-style, Millbrae)
Less knowledge of other cuisines lately...
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Food I'd recommend in Palo Alto:
- Taverna (Greek, downtown, reservations req'd)
- Ramen Nagi (downtown, wait req'd)
- Taste (Sichuan & Beijing-style, downtown)
- Chef Zhao (Shanghai-style, Embarcadero & 101, a bit hit-or-miss)
- So Gong Dong Tofu House (Korean, El Camino)
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The Layout team at @mozilla is hiring. Want to work on the implementation of CSS in @firefox? The layout team works on CSS, layout, fonts & text, animation, printing, etc. careers.mozilla.org/position…
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