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: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 18:17:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83zj6rri8a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83twx2xoc8.fsf@gnu.org> <87619hke3u.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <551A3F17.6020903@math.ntnu.no> <20150331085055.GA2871@acm.fritz.box> <87zj6tiko1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331104935.GB2871@acm.fritz.box> <87y4mdi7tj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331214347.GH2871@acm.fritz.box> <20150401103225.GA2633@acm.fritz.box> <837ftvsy5f.fsf@gnu.org> <87iodfc2yh.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427901661 31950 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2015 15:21:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 15:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 17:20:52 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 1YdKRY-0004oj-5Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:20:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKRX-0004tO-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKOQ-00009g-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKON-0005zk-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:60931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKON-0005zJ-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NM400E00VJPVB00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 18:16:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NM400616VQNOQ90@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 18:16:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87iodfc2yh.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:184726 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:56:06 +0200 >=20 > > There's a large gap between where the tutorials leave off and the= man > > pages pick up. I found nothing to fill that gap, in terms of > > background information regarding what is going on. There are a l= ot of > > specific questions answered on StackOverflow and such likes, but = they > > provide cookbook-style solutions, which is very good for solving > > specific problems, but not if one wants to understand what's goin= g on > > better. >=20 > Please note that Alan mentioned several times that he is not intere= sted > on the "what's going on" part of Git He also said he wanted to know what merge does, and that is what _I_ meant by "what's going on". > IIRC there are several technical articles about the innards of Git. That's not what is being sought here, see above.