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Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, ho


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?]
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:48:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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



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