From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:22:03 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <87efnan46u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <86wp12qtgo.fsf@dod.no> <83tvw6chqv.fsf@gnu.org> <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> <7c7503b4-1f82-8a25-fedd-c61c3e7629f6@cs.ucla.edu> <83zi5o6w4p.fsf@gnu.org> <745d2f02-8ca3-8962-0de4-053340c8fa63@cs.ucla.edu> <83efmx6862.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp0n32se.fsf@gnu.org> <83po6e17o4.fsf@gnu.org> <838td11r6z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515874865 14726 195.159.176.226 (13 Jan 2018 20:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:21:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 13 21:21:00 2018 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 1eaSIO-0002ne-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:20:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34374 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaSKM-0002sy-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaSJf-0002sE-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaSJd-0003QQ-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:51634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaSJZ-0003Jx-O2; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDB41616AB; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:22:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id iKOcBcNoXHqs; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:22:03 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62AA71616AE; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:22:03 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id qJyvfXSSRsAu; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:22:03 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42D771616AB; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:22:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <838td11r6z.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:221938 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > You simply misunderstood me: I didn't mean the hardware. Then I'm afraid you weren't clear. I don't know why academic environments= would=20 be significantly different from home environments when it comes to Emacs = hacking=20 in general or Git support in particular. Even in places where network connectivity is limited, I don't see why a s= erious=20 Emacs hacker would intentionally avoid the Git repository and instead dow= nload=20 and manipulate tarballs by hand. Git doesn't need constant network connec= tivity,=20 and its benefit (in terms of examining and managing Emacs history) far ex= ceeds=20 the few minutes of delay in the initial download.