From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Can I have this, pretty please? Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:10:49 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqdcms3a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85ir7kq42k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854pj4o8k5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List , Paul Mackerras To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 12 22:10:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IKJm4-0005oF-AK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:10:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762321AbXHLUKw (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:10:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761694AbXHLUKw (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:10:52 -0400 Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.47]:44683 "EHLO mail-in-07.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760580AbXHLUKv (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:10:51 -0400 Received: from mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.15]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244B124B629; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 164CA2D3B36; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-036-190.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.36.190]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF8C35E688; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:10:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8F3E71C3C79D; Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:10:49 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun\, 12 Aug 2007 12\:53\:57 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3936/Sun Aug 12 17:10:09 2007 on mail-in-06.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > But if you want to make a virtual NNTP server that exposes the > git-rev-list output, go right ahead. > > I don't think it should be needed (ie I think we should be able to > handle this issue other ways), Sure. But being able to handle it in a way with which I as well as my tools are already fluent is an advantage, for me. "One separate idiosyncratic tool for every job" does not cut it for me with regard to user interfaces. Which is part of the reason I am an Emacs user. And even though you may want to see that breed interned, some of them do useful things at times. > and I don't think it's as good as the alternatives (because I don't > think any client will ever be able to show the history well), but > hey, alternatives are fine. Yup. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum