From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:01:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210202160114.GC26805@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h7mu5w8o.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 05:23:51PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:06:32 +0100
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > The nice thing about git is that it makes those things explicit [1].
>
> Careful: there are those (including yours truly) who think that this
> is a terrible misfeature, which only benefits people with too much
> time on their hands and the wish to understand the innards of Git. A
> VCS should do its job without asking me to understand too much about
> its mechanics. If I want to know how it works, I will then go ahead
> and read on it, or even (gasp!) look at its sources.
Eli, I do understand your point. After all, I had to master enough of
git to make it useful for me, and believe me, it wasn't without some
amount of swearing and screaming. FWIW, this was my Emacs story too.
I hope my explanation uptext was at least of some help :)
Cheers
- t
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[not found] ` <20210131223954.A429420DF3@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-02-02 0:44 ` master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk Katsumi Yamaoka
2021-02-02 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-02 5:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-02 6:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-02-02 9:06 ` tomas
2021-02-02 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-02 16:01 ` tomas [this message]
2021-02-02 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-02 16:34 ` git things [was: master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk] tomas
2021-02-03 5:51 ` master 11abc4a: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scratch/lexical-gnus' into trunk Richard Stallman
2021-02-02 8:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-02 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-03 5:52 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-03 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-04 5:47 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-02 9:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-02 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-02 14:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-02 22:12 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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