From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jordi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:01:19 -0500 Message-ID: <1388970079.11337.41.camel@Iris> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388841220.11337.21.camel@Iris> <87bnzrzuzp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388846441.11337.25.camel@Iris> <8738l2k4hh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1388927967.11337.32.camel@Iris> <87y52u782r.fsf@wanadoo.es> <1388938726.11337.36.camel@Iris> <87ppo673tp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <1388964414.11337.40.camel@Iris> <87d2k66j2i.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388970090 8862 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 01:01:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 01:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 02:01:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzyZV-00026L-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 02:01:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzyZU-0002HV-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:01:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzyZN-0002HO-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzyZG-0004cf-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:01:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50083) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzyZG-0004cb-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:01:22 -0500 Original-Received: from beast.bic.mni.mcgill.ca ([132.206.178.199]:48535 helo=[IPv6:::1]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzyZF-0002h4-Ej; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 20:01:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87d2k66j2i.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167424 Archived-At: On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 01:38 +0100, =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > Jordi Guti=C3=A9rrez Hermoso writes: >=20 > > Sure, same reason, really, that I work on GNU Octave. You wouldn't > > suggest I stop working on Octave and tell everyone to just buy > > expensive Matlab licenses instead? >=20 > Hmmm... >=20 > Mercurial =3D=3D Octave (Free Software, done for the benefit of all); >=20 > Git =3D=3D Mathematica (Expensive, exclusive, greed-driven software) >=20 > Got it. Please attempt to be a bit more charitable than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity My point was that attempting to emulate git features in hg in order to attract git users is a ultimately good thing, not something worth of mockery. I think hg has other benefits beyond what git can offer, but if git users won't even touch it because it doesn't have their pet feature, then they also won't see hg's other features. Thus, it's a good thing to offer reasonable accomodations for git users in hg, and these accomodations already exist for many things. - Jordi G. H.