On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:06:32 +0100
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > The nice thing about git is that it makes those things explicit [1].
> 
> Careful: there are those (including yours truly) who think that this
> is a terrible misfeature, which only benefits people with too much
> time on their hands and the wish to understand the innards of Git.  A
> VCS should do its job without asking me to understand too much about
> its mechanics.  If I want to know how it works, I will then go ahead
> and read on it, or even (gasp!) look at its sources.

Eli, I do understand your point. After all, I had to master enough of
git to make it useful for me, and believe me, it wasn't without some
amount of swearing and screaming. FWIW, this was my Emacs story too.

I hope my explanation uptext was at least of some help :)

Cheers
 - t