From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:12:26 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87r2xtlkmt.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499350375 28239 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2017 14:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 14:12:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 06 16:12:43 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dT7WN-0006lF-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:12:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT7WS-0007sL-VJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT7WJ-0007rM-I6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT7WG-0001CR-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41598 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT7WG-00018t-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dT7W7-0005yx-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:12:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:mfvfW6+I0iR7WLhU1YwGe9U6ZzU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216222 Archived-At: On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:50:23 -0400 Glenn Morris wrote: GM> Richard Stallman wrote: >> We have a problem in Emacs: it doesn't contain a good interface to >> git. GM> I get on just fine with Emacs VC and git. It enables me to do just what GM> I did with other VCS in Emacs, and I appreciate the uniformity of GM> interface. Obviously, many people prefer a more featureful interface to GM> git's many bells and whistles, and that's fine. But IMO your statement GM> is an exaggeration. Agreed. Magit in particular adds a steep learning curve to Git's. It's good software and fun to use, but it's definitely not a good *general* interface (which I'm assuming RMS meant). Ted