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: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:44:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83vbn1zeux.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141028223312.GB6630@acm.acm> <87fve7b6p7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029095248.GA14601@thyrsus.com> <87y4rz9m4d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ppdb0wv8.fsf@gnu.org> <87fve79c57.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhnz0vt3.fsf@gnu.org> <20141030083258.GB2683@thyrsus.com> <831tpp1rmn.fsf@gnu.org> <20141030155629.GA18445@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414780960 16729 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 18:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:42:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 19:42:35 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 1XkH9a-0005Es-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:42:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkH9Z-00083W-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49809) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkEHR-0004fS-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:39:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjsqP-0008NB-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:40811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjsqI-00087l-M4; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NE900200NSUWO00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:44:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NE9002DZNUVK580@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:44:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20141030155629.GA18445@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:176129 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:56:29 -0400 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: rms@gnu.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii : > > > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:32:58 -0400 > > > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > > > Richard Stallman : > > > > I've never used git, and I doubt I will use it for anything except Emacs. > > > > I hope Emacs will advertise a simple recommended beginner's git workflow. > > > > > > The wiki describes it in detail. > > > > Yes, it does. And no, that's not the "workflow" I alluded to. > > Can you be more specific about what problem needs solving, then? I already did that, in the discussion that started here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00790.html See especially the last bullet. Given the negative (to say the least) reaction to what I said back then, I have absolutely no motivation to talk about that any more. I guess we all will discover in due time "who is right and who is dead".