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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: converting a 700,000+ line Fortran 7   
   11 Apr 25 22:08:02   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:28:10 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > I find git very unpleasant to work with.  Merge conflicts are handled   
   > quite ungracefully ...   
      
   Use something else that handles merges better, then.   
      
   > ... but my main problem is that I have no mental model   
   > of what is happening with which command (which means that I remove my   
   > local copies of the repos from time to time).   
      
   The commit structure is a DAG. People tend to groan every time that comes   
   up, but it’s a core concept.   
      
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