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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-messag


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4e23cd0 4/5: * mail/rmail.el (rmail-show-message-1): When displaying a mime message,
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:51:36 +0300

> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:20:07 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > 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.

I don't know about orders of magnitude, and we didn't try Mercurial.
We did use Bazaar, and Richard never complained like that, AFAIR.

> It's just the price of using an advanced tool.

An advanced tool that insists on exposing too much of its advanced
features for the simplest operation.

> Contributing to Emacs asks a person to learn different things, some of 
> them fairly niche

You forget that there are those among us for whom all of those things
were lessons learned long ago.  Which leaves just Git as the step to
climb.



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