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I have several IMHO interesting git questions ;)

user163250

Oh really? Like what?

I think all my feature requests.

user163250

Oh :P

user163250

You know C don't you?

user163250

5:31 PM

You could probably just fulfill your own feature requests :P

Yes, I have been a professional C programmer for several years :D

well, I do not have time for git, even if someone funds my work on it.

@Cupcake won't be more easier just to merge all git command tags? I mean, you can't do a git fetch without git :/

except obvious extensions (git flow, git gui, etc.)

user163250

You mean instead of having things like git, git-branch, and git-merge, just make everything a synonym of git?

@Cupcake yeah

user163250

I thought about that too, but recently I decided that it's not a good idea.

user163250

5:37 PM

It makes searching to duplicate content harder.

user163250

Unfortunately, many of the tags are already synonyms of git.

let me put it this way: what an expert about git-fetch can answer that a git cannot?

user163250

It's not about being a git-fetch expert.

user163250

It's about being able to search on that tag for duplicate content.

does the tag really help there though?

user163250

5:39 PM

What if I'm looking for a canonical question that involves something with git fetch?

user163250

It can sometimes.

user163250

I find a lot of content that I'm looking for on MSO by using the tags.

@Cupcake ok, we are in different pages. How can help a git-command tag to answer the question?

I do not know. IMHO, the SO search is unusable.

user163250

@FinalContest sometimes it can be more useful than Google. Sometimes.

5:40 PM

mmmm

Sometimes

I am yet to see that :-)

user163250

@FinalContest you can't do literal code searches like "&method" with Google.

Yeah you can @Cupcake

user163250

You can do it with SO's Elastic Search though.

google.com/…;

user163250

5:41 PM

@Undo I think google will ignore things that it considers punctuation...

the question is: why would you do that?

Google supports literals. And keeps punctuation if it's in a literal

Btw, I have heard a lot of newcomers complaining about my duplicates that they could not find it with the SO search

and I could find them with google search ...

user163250

@Braiam it helps to find possible duplicates.

can you show a case which we could not find with google?

user163250

5:43 PM

E.g. "find all questions tagged with git-filter-branch"

user163250

That is something useful.

user163250

Unfortunately, someone already made a bunch of git commands synonyms for git, and I don't know why.

@Cupcake don't you have all canonical questions about git in your favorites?

user163250

I'll ask an MSO question one of these days asking if that can be undone.

user163250

@Braiam I have 2,178 questions in my favorites.

user163250

5:44 PM

It's useless.

user163250

I can't find anything in there.

2 mins ago, by Final Contest

can you show a case which we could not find with google?

user163250

Hold your horses, I'm replying to several people at once.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/11585765/2581872

@Cupcake ok, link me to a duplicate before you flag it and I will find the canonical

user163250

5:46 PM

I was just about to get to you.

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: INTEGRAL OF THE SQUARE OF A FUNCTION on math.stackexchange.com

A: What is the proper way to approach SO as someone totally new to programming?

if we can find a case, perhaps we can think about improving the question rather than adding tags?

user163250

@FinalContest See this.

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google.com/search?q=%22ruby+%3D%3E%22

user163250

5:46 PM

VS

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stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22%3D%3E%22+ruby

@Cupcake: google.com/…

user163250

None of the top results are the right one.

@Cupcake you selected poor keywords, search: "ruby" equals greater than

@Cupcake: right one for?

user163250

5:49 PM

@Braiam the point is that you don't have to use English keywords, you can just use the code literal.

you can do that on google, too.

user163250

This google.com/…

I have found plenty of dupe with that strategy... I remembered only part of the code.

user163250

did not return any of the right results.

btw, "ruby =>" is not a question

can you clarify the real question

user163250

5:51 PM

...

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well, I am not planning to learn a language from 2587 :p

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/4781972/2581872

where is @rene when I need him?

@hichris123: I cannot flag the link-only answer as low-quality as it has score 1 :(

5:57 PM

@FinalContest Better? ;P

yes, thanks.

does anyone know the worst accepted answer in terms of scores?

@hichris123 be more proactive! Look, a flag worthy Q stackoverflow.com/q/2059670/792066

Andy

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A: "<<" sign in Latex

I would recommend $<<$.

From here: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/30008/…

The top 2 aren't accepted answers, this is actually the 3rd lowest scoring answer

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/1478762/website-analysis-tools

6:12 PM

@FinalContest easier way stackoverflow.com/search?q=isaccepted%3Ayes+score%3A..-30

6:28 PM

Does anyone here use the mobile site?

@Bart Occasionally

Can you get to the newest questions page by first going to the front page? Say on meta.stackoverflow.com

@Bart only mobile chat.

On the front page I can't select the "newest" option (it's not there). And when clicking on "Questions" I'm simply lead to meta.stackoverflow.com again. And not meta.stackoverflow.com/questions

If I manually go there, I can sort by "newest".

@FinalContest You rang, M'Lord?

6:38 PM

@Bart you need to type /questions in the url

That's my point @Braiam. Should I have to?

@Bart from my UX POV, nope

On the regular site, if I click on "Questions" it lead me to /questions

And if I'm not mistaken, this behaviour on mobile is new, so I wondered if others had the same experience.

@Bart Wait, what? clicking "Questions" on MSO is leading me to /questions

oh, mobile

Yep, mobile

6:40 PM

there shuold be a dropdown thingy on the right for sorting. newest, frequent, votes, active, unanswered

Apparently I've got the "sobreano" badge on meta.christianity.se

Not when on the front page @AnnaLear. All I get there is "active, hot, week, month"

@Bart wtf. You're right. I see that on my phone, but using the mobile view on the website it shows more options. not sure why there's a difference.

well, the wheel of blame said is Marc fault so... just linch him

hey @sklivvz ^^^

6:41 PM

@AnnaLear screen width dependent navigation?

NOOO @sklivvz, don't lynch Marc. She meant the messages before that.

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@JanDvorak no, the menu is there either way. just with different options.

Sklivvvz did all the work on the redesign (outside of the actual design :)), so this is a question for him.

I mean, does javascript or CSS hide some items if they don't fit?

meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/help/badges/13/yearling

7:00 PM

In case someone want to fix the drop down on the mobile site, run this first $('#tab-selector select').append('<option value="newest">newest</option>'); after that you can switch to newest from the drop down...

Oh, you have to run that on every load...

Sklivvz

@anna you lost me

My Opera Mobile on Symbian has a sh^k^k terrible userscript support

@Sklivvz start from chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2170137#2170137

@JanDvorak I won't go into details on the browser support on maemo (my N900 runs that)

7:33 PM

@Braiam: thanks.

@rene: I was having a stat question, but apparently, others already answered it.

8:01 PM

OK

8:31 PM

I'm one flag away of 10 declined flags. Do I get a badge then?

user163250

8:56 PM

cv-pls duplicates, need 1 more close vote on each of them, it's been taking a while:

user163250

1. stackoverflow.com/questions/17846529/…

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2. stackoverflow.com/questions/17695337/…

@Cupcake Why not use that as a dupe target? I think it's a better question with better answers.

... and I just realized you had an answer on it. :P (upvoted it a while ago as my server is being... annoying)

9:13 PM

both closed

9:43 PM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/24613795/792066

@Braiam why did you flag that as VLQ on top of the "recommend closure" flag?

user163250

@rene thank you!

np

A: ssh-agent error "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."

@AnnaLear there are various reasons, but the most compelling is that there are 3kers that do review the VLQ queue and casts close votes there that do not in the former Close Queue, which in turn expedites the closure of a question

is trying to get as many users eyes as possible to check the question

user163250

9:58 PM

@hichris123 I guess it could be the canonical too, but I disagree that the answers are better. For example, this answer...

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ssh-add and ssh (assuming you are using the openssh implementations) require an environment variable to know how to talk to the ssh agent. If you started the agent in a different command prompt window to the one you're using now, or if you started it incorrectly, neither ssh-add nor ssh will see ...

user163250

Actually explains how ssh-agent works.

user163250

Either way, I flagged a moderator to merge the answers together.

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/23822809/…

10:23 PM

cv-plz stackoverflow.com/q/8604069/2581872

done...I'm out...

ManishBot

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SCANNER HELP PLEASE on askubuntu.com

user163250

11:13 PM

cv-pls

user163250

Recommendation: stackoverflow.com/questions/1733676/…

user163250

Too broad or opinion based: stackoverflow.com/questions/690766/vss-or-svn-for-a-net-project

user163250

Too broad: stackoverflow.com/questions/61959/…

does daily cleanup of Android questions with 4 closevotes

user163250

Opinion based: stackoverflow.com/questions/44588/…

user163250

11:15 PM

I ran out of close votes about 10 minutes ago.

> help convince them that going to something like Subversion would be a much better solution

Well, there's a sign of a 6-year-old question...