Pushing after merge considered harmful

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar_Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:15:47 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Oh, come on!  Try the Emacs Lisp Manual some day: it describes a
> > vastly more complex system than Bazaar, and yet if you read a chapter
> > on some issue, you get enough information to understand that issue
> > from close to zero knowledge to the degree that you can write a
> > non-trivial Lisp application.
> 
> I doubt that you can write a non-trivial Lisp application without
> knowing what an atom, cons cell, list and object are. Moreover, if you
> pretend to write a non-trivial Emacs extension, you need to learn first
> about buffers, windows, the point, etc.

Sure, but if I need to know that, it's all there in the same manual,
nicely indexed and hyperlinked.  There's almost no outside knowledge
required, and where there is (e.g., in the more murky corners of
Unicode), there's a URL to go and read that.  Of course, it could take
quite some time to read and consume all that, but I don't mind such an
effort, as long as there's a clear target at the end of it.

> As a Emacs Lisp learner and frequent reader of the manual, I can assure
> that its topics are not so free from fundamental dependencies as you
> say.

I'm not sure what ``fundamental dependencies'' are you talking about,
but if they ware inside the same manual, I'm fine with that.  If not,
please submit a docs bug report.