From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:02:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86egoeusg2.fsf@example.com> <87384qzxqy.fsf@igel.home> <87h9t4kcaq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d23rk7wf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427810566 20880 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2015 14:02:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 31 16:02:35 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 1YcwkN-0003Py-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:02:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcwkH-00022s-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:02:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcwkB-00022i-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycwk5-0002uz-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycwk4-0002uv-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycwk2-0007Ni-SA; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:02:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d23rk7wf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:184624 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Felicitations for them, but why should that be relevant to this issue. > It's relevant because Emacs needed a DVCS, many Emacs developers > needed a distributed workflow, there are *many* possible workflows, > and it made sense to describe one that is proven to be successful and > adapted to the needs of a great many developers in some very active > projects. That was fine, for the people who wanted to use it, but it has nothing to do with my usage. > You seem to be confused here. The popular workflow referred to above > has nothing to do with the GitForEmacsDevs workflow as far as I know That's why it has nothing to do with my usage. And it wasn't the > GitForEmacsDevs workflow that screwed you, either, as you yourself > testify that you didn't follow it accurately at least in respect of > pushing after committing. I thought I was following it -- but I forgot that it said to do a push. It was months from when I read that file to when I actually built the latest version, and then weeks before I tried to commit changes. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.