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: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:16:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83bno388t9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114120604.GA3859@acm.acm> <87389mkjwo.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <20141114141434.GM3565@embecosm.com> <20141114180521.GA3168@acm.acm> <20141114230235.GF3168@acm.acm> <20141117141123.GA4294@acm.acm> <83lhn89zxn.fsf@gnu.org> <87389gunbz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416413835 23438 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 16:17:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:17:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 17:17:08 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 1Xr7wK-0004ua-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:17:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr7wJ-00038F-LE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:17:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36169) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr7w1-000389-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:16:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr7vr-0005a9-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:16:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:55536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr7vr-0005Zn-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFA00500NOSZG00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:14:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFA0009GNSNMT50@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:14:47 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87389gunbz.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: 80.179.55.185 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:177770 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Sergey Organov , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:59:44 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > Git itself has no "branches" that are "active lines of development" > > > in its data model. > > > > Git might not have it, but we its users do. > > True, but in practice there are *no* VCSes that have "active lines of > development". I believe you. But humans certainly do have that notion, at least some people sometimes do.