From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:50:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871toziknn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20141118194818.62232270@anarchist.wooz.org
Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> writes:
> On Nov 18, 2014, at 10:43 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>>You must also admit that git is at fault here for misusing common words.
>>A "branch" in English is not and cannot mean a "tip of a branch". Yet
>>git has twisted the language such that this has become its meaning. And
>>any cultured person must suppress his revulsion at such abuse as part of
>>the cost of learning git. YUCK!
>
> I would concur. For someone with decades of $vcs experience, I think the
> subtly (and sometimes not-so-) differences in terminology, which translates to
> non-obvious cli behavior is the biggest impediment to drinking the git
> kool-aid.
You can view your branch as anything you want to, but new identifiable
growth happens on branch tips or on new branching points on any good old
English tree. And I was not aware that in plain English language any
piece of a tree has to have a primary association with one particular
twiglet considered to be its principal identity.
At any rate, I don't see the point in further explaining anything about
Git to a bunch of petulant overbearing bickerings. Less special people
manage learning to work with their tools. There is a saying in German
"Wenn der Bauer nicht schwimmen kann, liegt's an der Badehose" -- "if
the farmer can't swim, it's the swimming trunks' fault".
If you are so much smarter than the others, bring up your lectures on
the Git developer list.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-19 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-14 12:06 Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-14 13:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-14 13:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 14:14 ` Andrew Burgess
2014-11-14 18:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-14 18:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 20:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-14 20:41 ` Christoph
2014-11-14 20:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 22:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-15 7:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-15 19:40 ` Florian Weimer
2014-11-15 21:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-15 22:02 ` Florian Weimer
2014-11-16 9:10 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-20 2:56 ` Rob Browning
2014-11-14 20:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-14 20:57 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-14 21:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 23:56 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-11-15 7:36 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-14 23:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-14 23:17 ` David Engster
2014-11-15 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-15 8:18 ` David Engster
2014-11-15 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 23:40 ` David Caldwell
2014-11-15 7:40 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-15 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-15 9:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-15 9:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-15 10:28 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-15 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-15 14:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-15 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-15 18:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-15 12:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-15 14:35 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-15 15:57 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-11-15 16:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-15 19:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-15 20:48 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-16 9:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-16 9:23 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-16 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-16 15:47 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-16 13:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-16 15:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-16 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-16 16:16 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-16 16:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-16 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-16 20:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-17 11:54 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-17 14:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-18 16:59 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-18 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-18 17:58 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-18 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-18 18:40 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-18 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-18 20:57 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-18 22:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-19 0:48 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-11-19 9:50 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-11-19 1:12 ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-19 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 16:39 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-19 16:49 ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-19 4:48 ` Teemu Likonen
2014-11-19 6:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-19 13:55 ` Teemu Likonen
2014-11-19 8:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-19 12:14 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-19 13:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-19 15:00 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-19 15:15 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-19 15:24 ` Achim Gratz
2014-11-19 15:36 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-19 16:00 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-19 16:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-20 0:57 ` Alexis
2014-11-20 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 16:36 ` Sergey Organov
2014-11-19 18:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-19 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 20:05 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-19 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-20 3:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-20 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 18:29 ` Teemu Likonen
2014-11-18 23:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-18 23:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-19 1:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-19 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-18 21:59 ` John Yates
2014-11-19 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 10:08 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-19 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-18 22:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-19 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 16:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-19 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 21:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-14 13:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 13:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-14 14:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-14 15:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 15:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-14 20:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-14 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 15:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 17:03 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2014-11-14 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 17:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 20:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 21:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-14 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 21:18 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-14 21:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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