From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Brinkhoff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:49:30 +0100 Organization: nocrew Message-ID: <85pp7w9akl.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <83pp7yp5po.fsf@gnu.org> <86sicte9j3.fsf@example.com> <83y4mlnee2.fsf@gnu.org> <20150325181959.GC3833@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427309410 26020 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2015 18:50:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:50:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 25 19:50:05 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 1YaqNN-00029V-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:50:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaqNM-0008E7-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaqN6-00088A-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaqN3-0004ko-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YaqN3-0004jl-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YaqMx-0001p7-Im for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:49:35 +0100 Original-Received: from ua-213-114-92-46.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([213.114.92.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:49:35 +0100 Original-Received: from lars by ua-213-114-92-46.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:49:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ua-213-114-92-46.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uPi+Y0vI+hLvxjedCGvLdhISfL0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:184257 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > The index (stupid name) is an extra layer of complexity. I'm > mystified as to what the git index is for. At first, I found this extra layer annying just like you. But now that I've been using git for time time, I really miss the index when I'm working in other DVCs, e.g. Mercurial. That didn't answer your question, but perhaps the best way to answer it is to dive head-first into git and just accept the new concepts.