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                              Github shenanigans

It all started with a simple pull request [1] to fix a bug. I have never
attempted to just “merge” a pull request on Github before, but I figured,
with such a simple change [2], why not try? Why not indeed.

Well, it broke my local repository. The commit message wasn't what I would
have liked, and I felt a revision of the version number was required, which
also involved updating the makefile and the Luarocks specification file [3].
I made the mistake (I think—I don't know) of amending the merge message with
a reformatted title and extra files and that was that. I was unable to push
the changes back to Github.

I ended up having to reset both my local repositories and the Github
repository. Hard. As in with the git reset --hard nuclear option. And hand
added the patch into the code, redid all the changes to the makefile and
Luarocks specification file multiple times. Ugly stuff. But I got it as I
like it.

And then I went to load the new version of the code into Luarocks [4] and of
course it failed. Of course. Github decided several months ago to depcrecate
support for git: URL (Uniform Resource Locator)s [5] and guess what I'm
using?

Sigh.

It took longer than I liked to find out I need to switch to using git+https:
URLs, and several version bumps of several of my Lua modules to get it all
straightened out. I just cannot update the Luarocks specification files
properly. It always takes way too many tries for me to get it right. Aaaaaah!

I'm also unsure why the Github merge failed for me. Am I not using the
“proper” work flow? Is it because Github considers itself the “primary
repository” when in fact, for my stuff, it isn't? I don't know. Perhaps I'm
slowly becoming computer illiterate [6].

Update on Wednesday, April 13^th, 2022

It seems the latest version of Luarocks will auto-correct git: URLs [7]. [See
what you get when you don't update every 20 minutes? —Editor] [Shut up, you!
Sean] I'm not sure what to think of this.


[1] https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS/pull/9
[2] https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS/pull/9/commits/0931bc7527b491ad54619fe8eb21bd957953d5a2
[3] https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/wiki/Rockspec-format
[4] https://luarocks.org/
[5] https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2021/08/23.1
[7] https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/commit/9ff512e35455939f02eaec2318e3acc77782fdeb

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