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: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:14:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87wq7h7o0i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20141028223312.GB6630@acm.acm> <87fve7b6p7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029095248.GA14601@thyrsus.com> <87y4rz9m4d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ppdb0wv8.fsf@gnu.org> <87fve79c57.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhnz0vt3.fsf@gnu.org> <20141030083258.GB2683@thyrsus.com> <874mul97mu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141030115128.GA7645@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414785444 26312 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 19:57:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:57:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 20:57:17 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 1XkIJx-0006NR-A4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:57:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkIJw-0007Jl-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:57:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkESo-0005Z3-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjocg-0001Bn-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjocg-0001Bf-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47407 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjocf-0006wB-Lo; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2E00FE05E3; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:14:37 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20141030115128.GA7645@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:51:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:176150 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > David Kastrup : >> At any rate, that's not an on-site resource for somebody having >> installed a full copy of Emacs. One of the main points of a distributed >> version control system is the ability to work offline. >> >> "There is some instruction somewhere on the Internet" is not a >> sufficient excuse for leaving Emacs without any resources pointing out >> the desired workflow for Emacs developers. >> >> If "the wiki" is an authoritive source for the workflow of Emacs >> developers, it means that anybody who wants to can tell the Emacs >> developers how to do their work. > > You may be right. But this is not a git transition issue. [...] Let me summarize this discussion: Richard: I'd like to see problem X solved eventually Eric: problem X is solved already David: no, it isn't Eric: well, but it can be solved eventually rather than now To me it looks like you are prone to spend a lot of time and energy chasing off straw men. Part of that might come from considering yourself to be the only person with any amount of intelligence around. But that's not an actually workable hypothesis: if you were the only person with any intelligence around, you'd not have sufficient time for solving all of the world's problems anyway. -- David Kastrup