From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:56:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87iodfc2yh.fsf@wanadoo.es> 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 1427900235 7051 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2015 14:57:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 14:57:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 01 16:57:08 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 1YdK4k-0005LX-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdK4k-0007Eb-5U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39407) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdK4M-0006zt-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdK4J-0004ab-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:56:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdK4J-0004aD-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YdK47-0004qt-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:56:23 +0200 Original-Received: from 171.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net ([80.26.206.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:56:23 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 171.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:56:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WngEUpynIDguIGnZV6ktxNMQVLI= 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:184721 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. There are a lot 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 going on > better. Please note that Alan mentioned several times that he is not interested on the "what's going on" part of Git (which IMO is a reasonable stance, but I do not understand why he insists on ignoring the advice about not using the man pages for learning how to use Git and read instead some of the multiple tutorials and introductions available on the 'net.) > So once you are past the basic stuff, you have nowhere else > to go to learn more, except from your own experience. IIRC there are several technical articles about the innards of Git.