Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-07 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Matthieu Moy" "Philip Oakley" writes: From: "Matthieu Moy" But then the maintainer is not the one picking changes from it (you're sending them by email), so the "maintainer" label is not really accurate in the diagram: + --- +| UPSTREAM | maintain

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-07 Thread Matthieu Moy
"Philip Oakley" writes: > From: "Matthieu Moy" > >> But then the maintainer is not the one picking changes from it (you're >> sending them by email), so the "maintainer" label is not really accurate >> in the diagram: >> >> + --- >> +| UPSTREAM | maintainer |

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-06 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Matthieu Moy" "Philip Oakley" writes: From: "Matthieu Moy" I don't think you will find a name that fits all use-cases. IHMO, best is to pick one rather general use-case, make the explanations for it, and maybe explain somewhere that there are variants. If the fork is completely pri

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-06 Thread Matthieu Moy
"Philip Oakley" writes: > From: "Matthieu Moy" >> >> I don't think you will find a name that fits all use-cases. IHMO, best >> is to pick one rather general use-case, make the explanations for it, >> and maybe explain somewhere that there are variants. >> >> If the fork is completely private, th

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-06 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Matthieu Moy" Jordan DE GEA writes: Matthieu Moy a écrit : That is technically correct, but to illustrate the overall flow, I'd rather avoid naming the repositories in terms of git commands. If you do so, you will probably end up with tautological explanations like this later in the

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-06 Thread Matthieu Moy
Jordan DE GEA writes: >> Matthieu Moy a écrit : >> >> That is technically correct, but to illustrate the overall flow, I'd >> rather avoid naming the repositories in terms of git commands. If you do >> so, you will probably end up with tautological explanations like this >> later in the text: "

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-05 Thread Jordan DE GEA
> Matthieu Moy a écrit : > > That is technically correct, but to illustrate the overall flow, I'd > rather avoid naming the repositories in terms of git commands. If you do > so, you will probably end up with tautological explanations like this > later in the text: "FETCH_REMOTE is the remote fr

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-03 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Junio C Hamano" "Philip Oakley" writes: That said, trying to find a good name for that 'third place' is not easy. It's neither upstream, nor downstream (for Junio - the maintainer special case - git.git would be his downstream). The me/git repo is like a ferryman's landing across the o

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Philip Oakley" writes: > That said, trying to find a good name for that 'third place' is not easy. > It's neither upstream, nor downstream (for Junio - the maintainer special > case - git.git would be his downstream). The me/git repo is like a > ferryman's landing across the other side of the

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-03 Thread Jordan DE GEA
>> Like PUSH_REMOTE, the remote where we fetch can be called FETCH_REMOTE. >> e.g. That’s clear to say "I fetch from fetch_remote". >> >> Do you agree? > > That is technically correct, but to illustrate the overall flow, I'd > rather avoid naming the repositories in terms of git commands. If yo

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-03 Thread Matthieu Moy
Jordan DE GEA writes: > You’re right, finding a good name is not easy. > Firstly, I wanted to use DOWNSTREAM and UPSTREAM. But git doesn’t make the > difference between those words. In english, "downstream" and "upstream" are relative terms. If A is upstream compared to B, then B is downstre

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-03 Thread Jordan DE GEA
> From: "Jordan DE GEA" >> This document attempts to help you configure a Triangular Workflow. >> +Here is an example of configuration: >> + >> + >> + --- >> +| UPSTREAM | maintainer | ORIGIN | > > UPSTREAM and ORIGIN a

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-03 Thread Philip Oakley
[Just catching up with responses] From: "Jordan DE GEA" Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2016 1:28 PM Currently, Triangular Workflow can be configured, but there is no Documentation about it. A documentation is useful to keep configuration possibilities up-to-date. The new documentation file gittriangula

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-02 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 05/31/2016 04:33 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Jordan DE GEA writes: > [...] >> +DESCRIPTION >> +--- >> + >> +Triangular Workflow (or Asymmetric Workflow) is a workflow which gives >> +the possibility to: >> + >> +- fetch (or pull) from a repository >> +- push to another repository > > [..

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-06-01 Thread Jordan DE GEA
> Jordan DE GEA writes: >> Currently, Triangular Workflow can be configured, but there is no >> Documentation about it. A documentation is useful to keep >> configuration possibilities up-to-date. > > You're using capitalization in a strange way. I don't think Triangular > Workflow deserves to be

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-05-31 Thread Matthieu Moy
[ +Cc Michael Haggerty ] Jordan DE GEA writes: > Currently, Triangular Workflow can be configured, but there is no > Documentation about it. A documentation is useful to keep > configuration possibilities up-to-date. You're using capitalization in a strange way. I don't think Triangular Workflo

[RFC/PATCH] Triangular Workflow UI improvement: Documentation

2016-05-31 Thread Jordan DE GEA
Currently, Triangular Workflow can be configured, but there is no Documentation about it. A documentation is useful to keep configuration possibilities up-to-date. The new documentation file gittriangularworkflow explains how to configure a triangular workflow. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-