From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <83pp7yp5po.fsf@gnu.org> <5511BB2A.2070909@dancol.org> <83619potuw.fsf@gnu.org> <83619nogfq.fsf@gnu.org> <87mw2yjnkq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427559503 16721 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2015 16:18:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 16:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, eliz@gnu.org, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 28 17:18:06 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 1YbtQr-0006Xg-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:17:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54630 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQq-0000Qa-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQm-0000O3-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQl-0003Wv-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQl-0003Wr-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YbtQk-0002ZW-Bf; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:17:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <87mw2yjnkq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:184469 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Hardly. Use of bound branches has always been a minority taste. As > somebody else commented, I'm surprised you of all people could stand > them, because you need to learn a non-default operation (commit > --local) to work disconnected. I never had any problem working disconnected with Bzr. I needed a connection only to transfer to or from the repository on Savannah, and that could hardly have been avoided. > Did you use "bzr commit --local", or > did you just not commit, if you're not connected to Savannah? I never did a local commit. I did commits solely to put the files on Savannah. > You have a practical problem: git behavior is not compatible with the > semantics you assign to "commit". It is bad design of git. The option of distributed use may be good, but requiring people to think in such terms is a screw. > I don't see evidence that Emacs has > a practical problem, as a very large number of contributors have > successfully converted to the documented git workflow for Emacs. That is no reason to think it isn't a problem. Others have stated here that they find it a screw. Those who want to think the Git way, by all means do so. But the Git for Emacs quick start page is meant for people like me. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.