From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 02:35:16 +0900 Message-ID: <87h9sxglnv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <83twx2xoc8.fsf@gnu.org> <87619hke3u.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <551A3F17.6020903@math.ntnu.no> <20150331085055.GA2871@acm.fritz.box> <87zj6tiko1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331104935.GB2871@acm.fritz.box> <87y4mdi7tj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331214347.GH2871@acm.fritz.box> <20150401103225.GA2633@acm.fritz.box> <87h9t080gx.fsf@javad.com> <83384jsx3o.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp7nrfdn.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8yqr226.fsf@gnu.org> <831tk2qvz5.fsf@gnu.org> <87384ii26v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428082563 30694 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2015 17:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 17:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 03 19:35:54 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye5VW-0004Un-Os for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:35:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye5VR-0000ei-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:35:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye5V5-0000ed-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye5V4-00074e-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:56019) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye5Uz-00073o-7v; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6855D1C389D; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 02:35:16 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 489EC120EC9; Sat, 4 Apr 2015 02:35:16 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 83e5c3cd6be6 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:184842 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > In discussing git, claiming that "commit" is anything other than a > > verb that means "to create a commit object" is what confuses > > understanding. > > If there is no simple way to explain what that operation does, that means > Git is hard to understand. That is a grave flaw in Git. The explanation you quote is simple. It is precisely equivalent to "cons creates a cons [object] from its arguments". Is that a grave flaw in Lisp?