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David Kastrup |
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Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?] |
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Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:48:21 +0100 |
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Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:48:44AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> I doubt that Git's popularity comes from youngsters wanting to
>> conspicuously display their complexity-mastering skills. My youthful
>> colleagues generally have better things to do.
>
> Have you any theory for why git has become dominant, despite its clear
> demerits?
Well, I don't know about Paul's youthful colleagues, but I think that at
least this old hand has better things to do than participating in a
"discussion" with the only goal of having Alan parading his made-up mind
around.
If you have any actual question about Git's operation, feel free to ask,
preferably with a shell history in order to back up your fantastic
stories about Git's random behavior.
Running your shell from within Emacs with
M-x shell RET
would be optimal for keeping a record but would require a sensible
setting of GIT_PAGER if you don't want to go nuts (I once wrote up some
script I called emacs-pager for that purpose using auto-revert-tail-mode
but it was not all that fabulous but marginable more useful than just
using "cat"). A shell history may be enough, however.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, (continued)
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Michael Heerdegen, 2015/10/28
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Yuri Khan, 2015/10/28
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, David Kastrup, 2015/10/29
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/29
- Re: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?, David Kastrup, 2015/10/29
- On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/29
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], David Kastrup, 2015/10/29
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], John Wiegley, 2015/10/29
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Paul Eggert, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?],
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- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], joakim, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Yuri Khan, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/10/30
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/31
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Andreas Schwab, 2015/10/31
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], Oleh Krehel, 2015/10/31
- Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?], David Kastrup, 2015/10/31
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