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: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:04:54 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <87h9t080gx.fsf@javad.com> <83384jsx3o.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp7nrfdn.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8yqr226.fsf@gnu.org> <831tk2qvz5.fsf@gnu.org> <87384ii26v.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 1428059118 7639 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2015 11:05:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 03 13:05:14 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 1YdzPU-000125-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:05:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdzPT-0007Ci-UP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdzPF-0007CM-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdzPE-0003LI-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:34813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdzPE-0003LA-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:04:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdzPC-0005cQ-Fo; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:04:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <87384ii26v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:184826 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. ]]] > In discussing git, claiming that "commit" is anything other than a > verb that means "to create a commit object" is what confuses > understanding. If there is no simple way to explain what that operation does, that means Git is hard to understand. That is a grave flaw in Git. If Git requires programmers to adopt a different and complex way of thinking in order to use it, that is a grave flaw in Git. I wish Bzr had had continued support so that we could have stayed with it. -- 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.