Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > When someone is in grave trouble, what do you expect?

Richard wasn't in grave trouble.  He panicked when confronted with
unfamiliar output from the application.  It seems that up until the
last pull, his workflow was well-aligned with typical git workflows
(although it wasn't doing what he thought it was doing because he was
unaware that installing changes required a push).  So he was pretty
much committed up at that point, and therefore his changes were safe
against anything short of rm -rf.  The eventual resolution also turned
out to require only a few simple commands, it seems.

It was his attempts to teach the fishermen to fish before getting his
dinner cooked for him that triggered this thread.