From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:53:51 +0200 Message-ID: <834mtt7trk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114180521.GA3168@acm.acm> <20141114230235.GF3168@acm.acm> <20141117141123.GA4294@acm.acm> <83lhn89zxn.fsf@gnu.org> <83bno49xtw.fsf@gnu.org> <20141118224326.GA5167@acm.acm> <87mw7n8k0f.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <837fyr88mc.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4r76n86.fsf@gnu.org> <87k32rgdm4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83mw7n6j83.fsf@gnu.org> <87ioiatw1m.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416498862 12104 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2014 15:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:54:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 16:54:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XrU3h-0005bT-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:54:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU3h-0006xX-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU3Z-0006x6-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:54:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU3U-0004R5-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:34668) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrU3O-0004QI-P6; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFC00100HBS7M00@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:52:23 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFC00N7ZHFBDP30@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:52:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ioiatw1m.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177877 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: David Kastrup , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:01:25 +0900 > > I agree entirely with David that confusing the DAG of commits with a > collection of branches means you lose a lot of the benefits of git, > and makes it very hard to use git as effectively as you used > branch-oriented VCSes. I agree. A branch is some path through the DAG, but a DAG is not a collection of branches.