From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git mirrors Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:55:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8762k095n4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871uuksdxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lissh32y.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zkh8e286.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87d3e4gttq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ehyjrhxh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d3e2rfte.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <878voqfiaw.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zkh4bhho.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zkh4nrcr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87zkh0ozjz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sjmrq18g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318859762 886 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2011 13:56:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 15:55:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RFnfZ-0007T1-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:55:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFnfZ-00005I-3k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFnfS-00004x-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFnfH-0001CJ-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFnfH-0001CF-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFnf8-0005gd-Vg; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:55:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sjmrq18g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:145255 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, > lekktu@gmail.com, > rms@gnu.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:57:51 +0900 > > > Try disregarding its obvious exaggeration and disgust, and just _read_ > > the portions of the man pages reproduced there. > > Sure (I don't need to, I've read them myself), but that's almost > irrelevant to introducing such a tool into the general workflow of a > project. I didn't say it was relevant. I was just reflecting on documentation quality, separately from the rest of this thread. > > [git people having trouble adjusting to bzr] could well be out of > > habit, though. > > It is most definitely not habit in my case. It's lack of colocated > branches, and lack of technical documentation for pipelines and looms. > I need technical documentation because I have a very clear idea of > what workflows I want to implement, and the use cases and tutorials > published for those tools don't match my workflow. That's still "habit" from my POV: you are used to certain workflows, and bzr doesn't lend itself easily to those workflows. Same happens to me in git: I _want_ to have separate branches, but git forces me to have a separate repo for each branch, if I insist on that workflow...