From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP, RCVD_IN_SORBS_SOCKS,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joshua N Pritikin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document git-runstatus Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:45:29 +0530 Message-ID: <20061120071529.GF3315@always.joy.eth.net> References: <455F1595.9020009@lsrfire.ath.cx> <20061118092644.a9f15669.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20061118143511.GM7201@pasky.or.cz> <455F210B.8000107@lsrfire.ath.cx> <455F4F06.3090902@gmail.com> <455F60EA.2080009@gmail.com> <20061118150431.81076072.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20061119181307.GY7201@pasky.or.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164006961 25272 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 07:16:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Git Mailing List Original-X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 20 08:15:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gm3Nf-0004uU-23 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:15:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933987AbWKTHPl (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:15:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933989AbWKTHPl (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:15:41 -0500 Received: from rune.pobox.com ([208.210.124.79]:41684 "EHLO rune.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933987AbWKTHPk (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:15:40 -0500 Received: from rune (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rune.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD7193E3E; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:16:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from emit.nirmalvihar.info (unknown [59.95.9.244]) by rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120D993E23; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:15:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by emit.nirmalvihar.info (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:45:29 +0530 To: Petr Baudis Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061119181307.GY7201@pasky.or.cz> X-PGP-Key: 06E3 3D22 D307 AAE6 ACB4 6B44 A9CA A794 A4A6 0BBD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Original-Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk Old-X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.version-control.git:31883 Archived-At: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:13:08PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > BTW, I've finally found a fine example of situation parallel to Git: > TeX! There are the core TeX commands (plumbing) and plain TeX (basic > porcelain) on top of that as well as a bunch of other macro sets (other > porcelains). Now I need to dig out The TeXbook from wherever I've put it > to see how did Knuth deal with it, documentation-wise. Gahh! Please don't use TeX as an example. As far as I know, TeX doesn't offer lexical scope. Hence, action-at-a-distance is commonplace which makes program execution extremely difficult for mere mortals to predict. I am constantly amazed at popularity of TeX, in spite of its grave deficiencies. Perhaps there isn't a good alternative yet.