From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: base Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:06:12 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87bp8oa61n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20100822120642.GA1794@muc.de> <871v9o7dmf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wrrg5rzg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r5ho5gyr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hbij6hib.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k4nf7ezq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878w3v7dd2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83wrrfmljv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3t75crc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8739u265eq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83sk22msp4.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkw94qn4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sk204nme.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83d3t4mtjs.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282893794 10309 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 07:23:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:23:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 09:23:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OotHI-0004qD-5S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:23:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OotHH-00018z-3r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38067 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OotEU-00089o-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oot17-0003at-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:06:26 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oot16-0003aR-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oot12-0006pP-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:06:20 +0200 Original-Received: from p508ece9d.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.206.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:06:20 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508ece9d.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:06:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ece9d.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J7DWddyXRXbxXX4XYWri97FsJBM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129283 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Well, when things get broken, you need a technician to fix them. Most > users aren't technicians. Projects shouldn't choose tools that become > broken or could break the project to the degree that most users > couldn't fix without calling a technician. The real problem are tools that can break the project to the degree that it becomes scary to impossible to fix even for technicians. One thing I like about git is that you can always literally do git reset --hard '@{one hour ago}' As long as you have not pushed anything. But why would you when things go horribly wrong? -- David Kastrup