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: VC mode and git Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:22:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83vbhma82r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y4mmpb1n.fsf@gnu.org> <20150324173536.GA30608@thyrsus.com> <83twxap92g.fsf@gnu.org> <20150324181936.GA31705@thyrsus.com> <20150325164718.GB24458@thyrsus.com> <20150326112356.GA10502@thyrsus.com> <87sicrj669.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150327123013.GA3141@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427462608 21408 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2015 13:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, stephen@xemacs.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 14:23:19 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 1YbUDx-0003uS-JJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:22:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50207 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbUDr-0000AW-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50067) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbUDm-000056-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbUDi-0004WQ-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:40634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbUDi-0004Vy-9c; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NLV00L00GZT1F00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:19:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NLV00H6KH0WPK30@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:19:45 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20150327123013.GA3141@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:184383 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:30:13 +0000 > Cc: rms@gnu.org, esr@thyrsus.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > I thoroughly resent the hour after hour after hour I've been forced to > spend reading git man pages, desperately searching for the obscure > option (or obscure command name) needed to get me out of some problem or > other, or find out how to do some simple thing. I concluded long ago that the Git man pages are not the right tool for that. I find a Google search much more efficient in finding answers to such questions. I only use the man pages as a reference for something I already know about, but forgot the details, or don't exactly remember the option's exact name.