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 20:44:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83zjbn6ndn.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> <83bno388t9.fsf@gnu.org> <87mw7nt9u9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416422721 18719 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 18:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:45:21 +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 19:45:14 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 1XrAFd-0006AK-NB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:45:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAFd-0002TD-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:45:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAFV-0002PV-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAFN-00037i-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:42565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrAFM-00036y-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:44:57 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFA00F00UEJ5O00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:40:18 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFA0042FUJ5D8A0@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:40:18 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87mw7nt9u9.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: 80.179.55.183 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:177803 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: sorganov@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:48:46 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > > > > 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. > > Yes, but what's your difficulty with git branches, then? None I know of. I don't have any trouble translating from my notions and concepts to Git implementations and vice versa. But I understand why it could be difficult at first. > Just say no to "branch ref is a whole branch". As Achim already > wrote, a branch is a branch ref plus what's reachable from that ref > by following the ref and commit parents. With that I fully agree, of course.