From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:41:32 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140105164132.GA11245@thyrsus.com> 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> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388940132 2299 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 16:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jordi =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 17:42:18 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 1VzqmH-00021m-Rg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:42:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzqmH-0004Ky-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46086) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzqmB-0004K2-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzqm3-00006V-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:42:11 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:56032 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzqm3-00006E-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC5A8380756; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:41:32 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1388938726.11337.36.camel@Iris> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:167375 Archived-At: Jordi Guti=E9rrez Hermoso : > I spoke with Sigma a while ago in #emacs (he was or is a big magit > contributor, I can't recall his actual name), and he think it's > feasible to abstract away the git part of magit and use it as an > interface for git and hg. Magit would hardly be the first of its kind > to abstract away git and hg. Kiln Harmony has also done this, as has, > for example, Phabricator. Not to mention VC mode, in which I busted a very similar move - in 1992 := -). --=20 Eric S. Raymond