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: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message, Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:31:07 +0300 Message-ID: <837fteboro.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d23hlmia.fsf@gnu.org> <20150407165131.GA2600@acm.fritz.box> <552486A4.2020803@yandex.ru> <5525D65C.8090303@yandex.ru> <83fv89g3dl.fsf@gnu.org> <87mw2he0d7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150413210654.GB6324@acm.fritz.box> <878udv8w4j.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150414171635.GB4612@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429032707 348 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2015 17:31:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:31:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 14 19:31:40 2015 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 1Yi4gV-00030t-Nf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:31:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4gV-0002my-44 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:31:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4gP-0002iN-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4gL-0004Ax-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:59867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi4gL-0004Ak-LB; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:31:29 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMT00E0046RBZ00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:28:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMT008LV4K73K70@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:28:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20150414171635.GB4612@acm.fritz.box> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:185420 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:16:35 +0000 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, > Dmitry Gutov > From: Alan Mackenzie > > To take an example, I was stuck a couple of months back having made > changes in my working directory and needing to revert them (from the > repository). In many (?most) VCSs this operation is called "revert". > Not in git. In git, you have to use "git checkout" in a particular > fashion. Supposing one doesn't know that the command is called > "checkout", how does one find out? How would you find this out? The only way I found to be efficient is Google. In this case, try something like "git how to revert changes in a file". You normally get good hits right away. Nothing else works, unless I already know enough about it to know which man page(s) to summon.