From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:25:36 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <86ego3c1lb.fsf@dod.no> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427901967 5154 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2015 15:26:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 15:26:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 17:25:59 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 1YdKWj-0008TU-Ci for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:25:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53342 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKWi-0000dy-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKWV-0000ac-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKWS-0002Gx-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:25:43 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKWR-0002Gn-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YdKWP-0008El-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:25:37 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no ([84.208.248.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:25:37 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:25:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sBugBC4qSH29Qw45AYI1qOr6FNs= 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:184729 Archived-At: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii : >> From: Andreas Schwab >> Manpages are not tutorials. There are a lot of good tutorials >> available. Just use them. > 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. The "Pro Git" book filled that gap for me. Only when I actually started following the branching and merging examples in the branches chapter, did things start to make sense to me.