From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19049: 25.0.50; emacs-repository-get-version doesn't work with git Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:23:56 +0200 Message-ID: <8361ehiz5f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21605.13364.160424.795470@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <8361eijo4i.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvdlj0u9.fsf@gnu.org> <837fyxizql.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415978728 8422 80.91.229.3 (14 Nov 2014 15:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19049@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 16:25:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIkQ-0004ob-MS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:25:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIkQ-0003C1-7g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIkH-0003Bg-KC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIkB-0004wN-Qp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIkB-0004vr-No for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIkA-000057-N5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:25:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19049 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 19049-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19049.141597865732715 (code B ref 19049); Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19049) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Nov 2014 15:24:17 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60886 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIjN-0008VT-1T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:47446) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XpIjH-0008VG-71 for 19049@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:24:11 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF100A00BSW7U00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 19049@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:24:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF100AB0C451E50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:24:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:96009 > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: 19049@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:16:57 +0100 > > > We had 10 months and enough git expertise to discuss this and decide > > what's best. And we wasted it. > > Well, I think the problem here is that git experts really aren't the > people who are best suited to explain these things. They don't know > what the incomprehensible things are. Some of them are the best people, and some of them do know what's hard to comprehend. Some people do have the ability to document and explain something in your area of expertise. And if they don't, others could have done that, given the right recipes. > I'll be summarising my experience in admin/notes tomorrow, since I now > have a (more or less) working setup. I suggest to post that here first, and see that the advice you want to put in notes is sound. As you already understand, it's easy to become confused about these things.