From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: vc for git users. Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:18:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83imo7prdg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20191028142107.koe7faofoqmsljel@Ergus> <834kzssv58.fsf@gnu.org> <2E3DDD9F-5E02-4C7A-AAFE-83A4B0345830@aol.com> <83k18npsr1.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgnbzm7z.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="254689"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 15:19:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iPSLL-00145x-8R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:19:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57510 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iPSLJ-00028v-JG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iPSKG-0001xc-BB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:18:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iPSKG-0002gi-7h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4705 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iPSKE-0003Y4-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:18:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sgnbzm7z.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:59:28 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121753 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:59:28 +0100 > > I tried explaining Emacs' git support through vc was the other day, and > he just couldn't wrap his head around how easy Emacs makes it. "But... > but... staging... the index... how... wha..." When you're finally > proficient in a nigh-incomprehensible tool like command line git, it > sounds as if something's missing in Emacs somehow. Yes, Git is brainwashing us. > So I think it might make some sense to write some text that explains > that, indeed, `C-x v v' makes most of that just go away -- you don't > have to think explicitly in those git terms. Wouldn't that explanation just repeat what we say in "Basic VC Editing"?