From: Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>
Cc: Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>,
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:51:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28xife6wh.fsf@kenny.sha-bang.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoodrbfq4p.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 22\:11\:18 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> wrote:
> Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de> writes:
>>> He provides pretty good arguments _against_ subversion, but also
>>> addresses mercurial vs. git a bit (mercurial is in some sense a riff on
>>> git, btw).
>>
>> If I interpret "riff" as "rip off", I have to disagree here.
>
> Riff does not mean "rip off."
So what does it mean here? I'm no native speaker and wasn't able to
find something in the dictionary which seemed to fit in the context.
sascha
--
Sascha Wilde : "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple
: actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions."
: (Doug Gwyn - 22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-13 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-04 11:40 CVS commits and logs Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-04 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-04 12:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-04 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-04 13:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-04 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-04 14:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-04 16:06 ` Reiner Steib
2006-11-04 22:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-05 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-05 7:08 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-05 21:22 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-04 22:28 ` Jason Rumney
2006-11-05 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-05 7:08 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-05 23:15 ` Bill Wohler
2006-11-06 2:30 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-06 16:08 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-06 19:38 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-07 16:47 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-07 22:44 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-09 0:53 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-09 4:47 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-09 6:01 ` Bill Wohler
2006-11-11 2:11 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-11 3:24 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-11 10:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-11-11 12:51 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-11 17:00 ` Switching to Subversion (was: CVS commits and logs) Bill Wohler
2006-11-11 20:00 ` Switching to Subversion Romain Francoise
2006-11-12 1:20 ` Bill Wohler
2006-11-12 11:26 ` Romain Francoise
2006-11-12 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-12 21:20 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-12 21:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 22:45 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-12 23:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 23:29 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-12 23:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 23:59 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 8:02 ` stephen
2006-11-13 12:38 ` Bruce Stephens
2006-11-13 20:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 21:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 22:43 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-11-12 23:22 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-12 23:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-12 23:54 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-12 23:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 0:15 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 1:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 16:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-13 16:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 16:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-14 4:50 ` Bill Wohler
2006-11-14 6:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-27 21:42 ` Jari Aalto
2006-11-28 4:52 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-28 12:06 ` Jari Aalto
2006-11-13 8:41 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-11-13 8:50 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-13 8:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 9:11 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-11-13 9:26 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-13 9:53 ` dhruva
2006-11-13 10:55 ` Thomas Arendsen Hein
2006-11-28 11:29 ` Jari Aalto
2006-11-13 12:38 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-11-13 12:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-14 2:27 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-13 12:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-13 14:49 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-11-13 14:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 8:51 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 11:43 ` Thomas Arendsen Hein
2006-11-13 12:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 13:16 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 13:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 13:54 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-13 14:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-14 3:53 ` Bill Wohler
2006-11-13 14:46 ` Sascha Wilde
2006-11-13 22:31 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 22:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-14 6:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-11-13 11:20 ` Thomas Arendsen Hein
2006-11-13 13:11 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 14:51 ` Sascha Wilde [this message]
2006-11-13 16:55 ` Thomas Arendsen Hein
2006-11-13 22:37 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-14 2:49 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 8:47 ` joakim
2006-11-13 8:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-13 9:05 ` joakim
2006-11-14 4:55 ` Bill Wohler
2006-11-13 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-14 1:53 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2006-11-14 2:10 ` Masatake YAMATO
2006-11-14 3:05 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-11-14 3:23 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-12 5:14 ` CVS commits and logs Richard Stallman
2006-11-12 9:45 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-13 9:44 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-07 18:07 ` Reiner Steib
2006-11-07 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-08 1:50 ` Miles Bader
2006-11-11 9:43 ` Reiner Steib
2006-11-06 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-14 20:16 Switching to Subversion Jim Blandy
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