From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:01:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8737aac0rb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <7s37aapc4g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499533354 28310 195.159.176.226 (8 Jul 2017 17:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 17:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 08 19:02:30 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 1dTt7l-00077H-C5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 19:02:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33532 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt7q-00020K-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:02:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt6p-0001zH-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt6o-0002fO-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt6m-0002eA-2X; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:01:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dTt6l-0004dC-In; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:01:27 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:52:14 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:216330 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. ]]] > > Maybe so. But it doesn't need to do everything Magit does. It only > > needs to be good enough to make git easy to use in Emacs. > Then I think we already have that in VC The reason I think this isn't so is that repeatedly I've seen people post on this list for help dealing with git, and each time people say to use Magit. I have not done a scientific study, which would include investigating whether the recommendation actually helped those people, and what fraction of Emacs users think VC is just fine for using git. I have simply supposed that the advice that was given is good advice since the people who give it are expert Emacs users. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.