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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/09/2015 10:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> There's no requirement for a tool to be "interesting", only to be
> useful, and let one do their job.

It wouldn't be adequate for my job, no.

> No, Git isn't useful that way.  Emacs, by contrast, is a useful text
> editor even if you use the most basic commands and cursor motion keys.

It *is* useful: it saves the changes, allows to undo the local 
uncommitted changes, and even to revert to earlier versions, if the user 
learns how.

One could even share the directory over the network, and people could 
take turns working on the project.

> But you have to admit that Git requires a newbie to learn
> quite a lot -- new terminology, several new commands, and new
> procedures -- as a _prerequisite_ for being able to work in a single
> remote-tracking branch.  And this is the core problem here.

Maybe so, but not an order of magnitude more than if we used something 
comparable like Mercurial. It's just the price of using an advanced tool.

Contributing to Emacs asks a person to learn different things, some of 
them fairly niche, but Git skills will easily transfer to other projects.