From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sergey Organov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:21:40 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83twx2xoc8.fsf@gnu.org> <551A3F17.6020903@math.ntnu.no> <20150331085055.GA2871@acm.fritz.box> <87zj6tiko1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331104935.GB2871@acm.fritz.box> <87y4mdi7tj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331214347.GH2871@acm.fritz.box> <20150401103225.GA2633@acm.fritz.box> <87h9t080gx.fsf@javad.com> <83384jsx3o.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp7nrfdn.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8yqr226.fsf@gnu.org> <831tk2qvz5.fsf@gnu.org> <87384ii26v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9sxglnv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428096127 16813 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2015 21:22:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 21:22:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 03 23:22:00 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 1Ye92N-0005Ca-Jj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:21:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35398 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye92M-00077F-OB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye92J-00076c-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye92D-0000GO-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye92D-0000G7-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye92B-00053b-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:21:47 +0200 Original-Received: from 89.175.180.246 ([89.175.180.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:21:47 +0200 Original-Received: from sorganov by 89.175.180.246 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:21:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.175.180.246 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:184848 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > > > > In discussing git, claiming that "commit" is anything other than a > > > verb that means "to create a commit object" is what confuses > > > understanding. > > > > If there is no simple way to explain what that operation does, that means > > Git is hard to understand. That is a grave flaw in Git. > > The explanation you quote is simple. It is precisely equivalent to > "cons creates a cons [object] from its arguments". Is that a grave > flaw in Lisp? To add to this nice parallel: To other VCSes Git is what Lisp is to other languages. To other VCSes Git is what Emacs is to other text editors. ... complains or no complains. -- Sergey.