Philip Oakley

The link at the bottom of the ReadMe (in the Se Also section) to man.he.net for the aplm-hooks finds nothing. Perhaps re-link to https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/alpm-hooks.5.html (assuming it is a good replacement)....

Scratch that itch emoji?

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Is there an 'itchy & scratchy', 'scratch that itch', emoji for those "It's your itch, you scratch it, open source is a co-operative endeavour" moments?

Add ability to stash outstanding uncommitted changes to allow testing of current worktree

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In a recent discussion on the [Git mailing list](https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/T/#m82e9b41199b112ba407aa65f85a77b710cbea075), a user of jupyter notebooks noted the need to test partial commits during a 'merge' of the notebook's changes. This requires...

Equivalent of `git checkout -b <newname>` is not obvious.

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It's quite common for people (self included) to checkout some commit (detached head) or branch (named head) and do some investigation resulting in changes that later they want to be...

[Idea] Add a commit menu option to allow all the env vars to be adjusted?

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I wanted to create an initial commit to a new repo that was backdated, and had many of the classic environment variables (committer & author name, date, and perhaps --allow-empty,...

I'm looking at the Git project in SourceTrail from a Visual Studio (Ninja) generated `compile_commands.json` file (via a `CMakeLists.txt` within the Git project). I'm then looking at those standard functions...

It's not always obvious where the various documentation parts are located, especially if one arrives at the 'wrong' web site (like here..). Please can a wiki page be added linking...

VS: 'create compilation database' greyed out in VS2019

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I have just update my VS install and Sourcetrail after a period of non-use. I now have Sourcetrail 2021.1.30 and Visual Studio 2019 Community 16.9.3. I installed the Sourcetrail extension...

Git Internals only `cat-file -p` the initial commit, so fails to list any parents

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In https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/master/book/10-git-internals/sections/objects.asc, the section on "Commit Objects", only gives one example of the commit's internals, that of the initial commit (with no parents) ``` $ git cat-file -p fdf4fc3 tree...

Miss coloured console example in chapter 10.2

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In the Chapter 10.2 there are at least two places (I believe) where the console display is miss-coloured because of the use of a line continuation "\". The two I...