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: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:48:46 +0900 Message-ID: <87mw7nt9u9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20141114120604.GA3859@acm.acm> <87389mkjwo.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> <20141114141434.GM3565@embecosm.com> <20141114180521.GA3168@acm.acm> <20141114230235.GF3168@acm.acm> <20141117141123.GA4294@acm.acm> <83lhn89zxn.fsf@gnu.org> <87389gunbz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83bno388t9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416415773 25898 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2014 16:49:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:49:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sorganov@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 19 17:49:25 2014 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 1Xr8RZ-0005ch-Ay for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:49:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8RZ-0002Sj-0p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:49:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46973) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8RP-0002OE-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:49:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8RJ-0001Lu-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:49:15 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:45671) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr8RC-0001Jd-6W; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:49:02 -0500 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 B8A831C3B37; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:48:46 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9C1071A2844; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:48:46 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83bno388t9.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 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:177783 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > > True, but in practice there are *no* VCSes that have "active lines of > > development". > > I believe you. But humans certainly do have that notion, at least > some people sometimes do. Yes, but what's your difficulty with git branches, then? Just say no to "branch ref is a whole branch". As Achim already wrote, a branch is a branch ref plus what's reachable from that ref by following the ref and commit parents.