On Aug 29, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Adam Spiers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:47:38PM -0700, Jonas Bernoulli wrote: >> I am VERY SORRY to have caused this breakage and I am taking full >> responsibility. >> >> The move to git-commit-mode was premature. I intended to keep >> magit-log-edit as a fallback or possibly even as the default but was talked >> out of it. I should have followed my intuition by playing it safe instead >> of listening to those who said that wasn't necessary. It is my mistake that >> I did not do so. >> >> I am working hard to fix the regressions. Unfortunately that also means >> that I don't have time yet to implement features that take advantage of the >> new workflow. There are some unexploited benefits that are currently hidden >> below all the regressions. >> >> Some of the drawbacks of the new workflow will vanish after making overdue >> changes elsewhere. But some drawbacks are inherent to the use of >> emacsclient. >> >> Because fixing the regressions is taking longer than I had originally >> expected I am currently investigating whether it is still possible to >> revert the removal of magit-log-edit and giving users the choice between >> the two modes. > > Hey Jonas, don't beat yourself up too much :-) We don't live in a > perfect world, and things always go wrong. In the grand scheme of > things, this is really not a disaster - just a minor inconvenience for > a few geeks ;-) The important thing is we learn from our *collective* > mistakes (noone should claim this is the fault of a single person) and > move on together in the right direction as a community. And it is > clear that you are very focused on fixing things whilst listening > carefully to the community. Noone can ask for more from a maintainer, > and I for one am very grateful for your efforts. magit is a great > piece of software and I'm excited to see what happens over the next > few months and years! Ditto... <from another thread> >> Is this part of the reason for the new commit method? So that things that >> work on the >> command line via normal git tools will also work from inside magit? >> > Yes. Things like this ^^^ are really awesome and it seems always comes at some price. I wish I could do more to help. pedz
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