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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: State of the repository conversion
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:13:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eh1w97bo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pplhqzmx.fsf@wanadoo.es>

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:09:58 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I would encourage git newcomers to just use Magit. It provides a nice UI
> >> for git, requiring very basic knowledge of git's specific features.
> >
> > That's unrelated to the issue at hand, which is how we use git at the
> > project level.
> 
> Magit can determine how you use git at the project level.

I very much hope that it will be the other way around: first we decide
how we want to work, and only afterwards tweak the tools (if needed)
to match that.

> Since it makes ordinary tasks quite more simple and less
> error-prone, git's barroque UI is no longer a significant factor.

We've been there: I don't think you can entirely ignore the
command-line UI to git.  Too much of the useful functionality isn't
accessible through front ends.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-19 17:51 State of the repository conversion Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-19 18:14 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-19 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-19 18:54   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-19 19:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20  0:08       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-20  0:32         ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-20  1:01         ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-20  3:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20  4:09             ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-20  7:06               ` David Engster
2014-03-20  7:49                 ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20 16:35                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 12:42                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-20 14:03                   ` Stefan
2014-03-20 15:09                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-20 16:13               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-03-20 20:23                 ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20  4:04         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20  4:25           ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-20  4:59             ` Stefan
2014-03-20  7:36               ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20  7:48                 ` Florian Weimer
2014-03-20  8:07                   ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20 16:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 18:02                 ` Stefan
2014-03-20 18:09                   ` David Kastrup
2014-03-20 20:35                     ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20 18:15                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 18:44                     ` Stefan
2014-03-20 20:17                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 20:30                 ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20 20:39                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 21:10                     ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-21  7:46                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-21 12:40                         ` Stefan
2014-03-21 12:57                           ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-21 16:08                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-21 17:02                             ` David Kastrup
2014-03-21 18:35                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-21 19:01                                 ` David Caldwell
2014-03-20 16:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 19:28               ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-20 20:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 20:31                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-20 20:40                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 20:46                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-03-21  3:02           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-21  8:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-22  7:18       ` Stefan-W. Hahn
2014-03-19 21:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-20  3:49   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20  7:46     ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20 16:09       ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-20 20:17         ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20 20:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 16:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-20 21:00         ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-21  9:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-21  9:38             ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-21  9:53             ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-21 10:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-21 12:30                 ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-20 18:19     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-20 18:27       ` Eli Zaretskii

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