From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 19:48:56 +0000 Message-ID: <20150405194855.GC28913@acm.fritz.box> References: <5511998E.8080309@cs.ucla.edu> <5512F8C7.7010509@math.ntnu.no> <5513F889.4000404@math.ntnu.no> <552102D6.1030106@math.ntnu.no> <871tjys8pb.fsf@igel.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428263375 11476 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2015 19:49:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 19:49:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Harald Hanche-Olsen , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 05 21:49:27 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 1YeqXu-0003ow-GX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:49:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeqXt-00073m-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 15:49:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52451) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeqXd-000713-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 15:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeqXa-0000cj-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 15:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:22968 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YeqXa-0000cL-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 15:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 29077 invoked by uid 3782); 5 Apr 2015 19:49:04 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9518044.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.128.68]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:49:02 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 19989 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Apr 2015 19:48:56 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871tjys8pb.fsf@igel.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 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:184975 Archived-At: Hello, Andreas. On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 08:58:56PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Richard Stallman writes: > > How fragile and complicated git is. > Fully in the spirit of Emacs. That was quite uncalled for, and fully unjustified. Emacs is usable at a naive level[*], it is well documented, and it is robust. It does not chew up users' data, and even if it did, would not cause a 700-post thread on a mailing list in the course of recovering that data. [*] For a simple text document, you can get by with self-inserting keys, the arrow keys, , , , C-x C-f, C-x C-s, C-x C-c, C-g and possibly C-/. > Andreas. > -- > Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).