From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: acm@muc.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:51:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <836195forr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55266E77.3080109@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:20:07 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> CC: acm@muc.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > But you have to admit that Git requires a newbie to learn
> > quite a lot -- new terminology, several new commands, and new
> > procedures -- as a _prerequisite_ for being able to work in a single
> > remote-tracking branch. And this is the core problem here.
>
> Maybe so, but not an order of magnitude more than if we used something
> comparable like Mercurial.
I don't know about orders of magnitude, and we didn't try Mercurial.
We did use Bazaar, and Richard never complained like that, AFAIR.
> It's just the price of using an advanced tool.
An advanced tool that insists on exposing too much of its advanced
features for the simplest operation.
> Contributing to Emacs asks a person to learn different things, some of
> them fairly niche
You forget that there are those among us for whom all of those things
were lessons learned long ago. Which leaves just Git as the step to
climb.
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2015-04-05 12:56 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message, Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-05 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-05 13:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-05 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-05 19:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-05 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-05 22:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-06 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-06 12:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-06 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-06 23:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-07 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-07 16:13 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-07 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-07 16:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-07 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-07 20:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-08 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 1:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-08 10:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-08 22:19 ` chad
2015-04-09 13:16 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-09 1:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-09 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-09 12:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-09 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-04-09 16:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-08 18:19 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-09 1:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-09 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-09 16:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-09 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-10 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-10 8:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-11 19:18 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-12 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-13 21:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-13 23:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-14 17:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-14 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-14 21:23 ` João Távora
2015-04-15 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-15 8:09 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-15 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-15 16:21 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-15 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-14 21:47 ` Steinar Bang
2015-04-08 18:21 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-08 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 19:18 ` John Yates
2015-04-09 13:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-08 1:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-08 18:19 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-09 1:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-09 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-09 11:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-07 20:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-08 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-05 17:42 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-05 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-06 5:50 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-06 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-06 7:45 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-07 16:13 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-07 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-08 12:02 ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-04-08 12:26 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-08 18:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-04-08 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-15 0:34 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2015-04-05 17:42 ` Richard Stallman
2015-04-05 19:01 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-05 21:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
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