From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 18:44:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20140104184415.GB3124@acm.acm> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <3166302.gI3LmCZv1L@descartes> <1388853707.11337.27.camel@Iris> <87zjnby4nu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388861247 24987 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 18:47:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 18:47:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 19:47:34 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 1VzWFy-0007pE-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 19:47:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55411 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWFy-0000eS-4A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:47:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWFp-0000eI-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWFh-00055E-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:47:25 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:56357 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWFh-00055A-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:47:17 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 26907 invoked by uid 3782); 4 Jan 2014 18:47:16 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p5492CC40.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.146.204.64]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 19:47:15 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 3258 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jan 2014 18:44:15 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87zjnby4nu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 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:167307 Archived-At: On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 07:37:25PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > For reference, Jordi's blog: > > The starting paragraph should make clear why he is determined not to > listen to any experience or talking point from anybody regarding git: Troll. > When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a > software user to disparage a thoroughly hostile DVCS, there is no > recourse but to blog about it. Thus, software diplomacy has failed, > and we must face the fact that I irredeemably hate git. To prove > this, let these facts be submitted to a candid world. > I don't see that we have much to gain from indulging in his mission of > hate here. Troll. Jordi, don't get drawn into this. Don't feed him. When it comes to hating git, you have good company, namely Eli Z. > -- > David Kastrup