From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:18:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20080103031831.GA15384@kobe.laptop> References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> <20080103025612.GH4822@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199330347 12193 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 03:19:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 04:19:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JAGcA-0005Ny-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:19:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGbo-000379-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGbj-00033s-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGbe-0002us-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGbe-0002uZ-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mx-out.forthnet.gr ([193.92.150.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAGbT-0004Ew-JU; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mx-av-02.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-02.forthnet.gr (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m033IgSa008581; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:18:42 +0200 Original-Received: from MX-IN-02.forthnet.gr (mx-in-02.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.185]) by mx-av-02.forthnet.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m033Ignj012825; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:18:42 +0200 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp5-162.adsl.forthnet.gr [62.1.228.162]) by MX-IN-02.forthnet.gr (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m033IYql027705; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:18:34 +0200 Authentication-Results: MX-IN-02.forthnet.gr smtp.mail=keramida@ceid.upatras.gr; spf=neutral Authentication-Results: MX-IN-02.forthnet.gr header.from=keramida@ceid.upatras.gr; sender-id=neutral Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m033IXOc015421; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:18:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m033IWcs015420; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 05:18:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080103025612.GH4822@thyrsus.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85965 Archived-At: On 2008-01-02 21:56, "Eric S. Raymond" wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas : >> Yes, there is a substantial difference between committing in a >> distributed SCM like Git, and Mercurial (the latter is the one I >> am most familiar with). > > Note to RMS: Giorgios's explanation is better than mine. I'm > just learning these systems, but he is clearly very experienced > and fluent with them. > > Giorgios, can I interest you in being a reviewer for my survey > paper? You sound like you may one of the people I need looking over > my shoulder as I try to design test and benchmarking suites for > DVCSes. Sure. I'm not very experienced with *all* the dSCM systems, but I will gladly help with what I know about Mercurial, Git, and Bazaar (these are the ones I am acquainted with, in decreasing order of experience). I've already cloned http://thyrsus.com/hg/uvc/ because I wanted to read the article anyway. Please feel free to email me with any guidelines about the review and/or other useful things. Regards, Giorgos