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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GitLab CI setup file in scratch/tzz/gitlab
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 21:53:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518215309.525f1ac1@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1dBWZs-0008Qr-BJ@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Thu, 18 May 2017 21:19:36 -0400 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
wrote:
> Thanks for the offer, but it would not be feasible for anyone to
> help me deal with git while communicating by email.  We would need
> to be in the same room.

Although I can't be in the same room as you, I'm sure getting someone
else to you in Cambridge to tutor you through it would be
straightforward.

> As for magit, we don't have legal papers to include it in Emacs,
> so please don't encourage poeple to use it.

I'm curious as to why. It is GPL, even GPLv3. Given that it is free
software, is there a good reason why one should discourage use of
it?

> To keep Emacs honest, we must promote the tools we can include in
> Emacs.  If those seem insufficient, then we should improve them.
> Perhaps that includes replacing magit (if we can't get papers for
> magit).

Has it been tried?

Perry
-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-19  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-26 18:45 GitLab CI setup file in scratch/tzz/gitlab Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-26 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-26 20:55   ` dptd dptd
2017-04-27  5:01   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-27 14:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-27 14:37       ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-27 14:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-27 15:16           ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-28 21:33             ` Richard Stallman
2017-04-29  0:41               ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-29 15:58                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-04-29 17:44                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-30 22:19                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-04-30 23:55                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-05-01  1:53                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-05-01 15:54                         ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-02 12:42                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-03  0:06                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-05-03 19:15                             ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-14  2:25                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-05-15  1:44                                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-15 20:08                                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-05-18  1:12                                   ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-05-19  1:19                                     ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-19  1:53                                       ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2017-05-21  3:25                                         ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-21  3:49                                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-22 12:15                                             ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-21 15:19                                   ` Tino Calancha
2017-04-29 18:22                 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-29 21:11                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-30 22:20                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-04-29  1:29               ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-04-27 17:43       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-27 20:16         ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-27 20:42           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-27 23:20             ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-28  6:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-28  8:33                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-28  9:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-28  9:58                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-28 13:17                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-28 13:35                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-04-28 12:47                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-28 13:24                       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-28 14:16                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-27 20:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-28 21:34       ` Richard Stallman
2017-04-27 16:16   ` Ted Zlatanov
2018-07-23 13:14     ` Tino Calancha
2018-07-27 13:48       ` Toon Claes

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