In the late nights when I have time to work on Callisto (my Windows 8 XAML toolkit), I often am making changes that I really wish I could either pair with someone on or at a minimum solicit some feedback. Primarily single-person open source projects are lonely :-).
Last night was no different. I had a user of Callisto having a problem with a specific code path. While my testing of the fix was fine, I didn't want to rush it without him understanding the simple fix. I had no good way of showing him a combined diff to comment on at the time. My problem was, what I thought, simple: how do I quickly share a diff from a GitHub project without requiring them to have a fork?
I set out to the best place to have an argument, Twitter. I asked the same question and got a lot of different responses, but almost a ...
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