Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:51:31 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Development tools are supposed to make our work easier -- not harder.
> > For me, Git means many hurdles to jump in order to do the things that
> > were easy before.
> 
> For what it's worth, I agree with you here on all the points you make.
> 
> > Also, I do this infrequently enough that I will have time to forget
> > whatever I learn now.
> 
> I have had the good fortune/misfortune of having to learn this tool to a
> minimum level of competence to be able to contribute to Emacs at all.
> This cost me many, many hours I would rather have spent doing other
> things.  I'm committing often enough not to forget between commits - for
> the moment, at any rate.
> 
> Git is a monster to learn, taking an order of magnitude longer than to
> learn Mercurial or Bazaar, and a greater jump still from learning CVS.
> 
> I would prefer just to be a user of a VCS.  With most VCSs, this is
> possible.  With git, it is not; one has to know a good deal of its
> internal workings to use it at all.

Alan, if you have a few moments to spare, could you read
GitQuickStartForEmacsDevs and see if the current procedures there
appeal to you (or maybe even tell you something useful you didn't
already know)?  Your comments will be appreciated.

TIA