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 11:46:54 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140105164654.GB11245@thyrsus.com> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <3166302.gI3LmCZv1L@descartes> <1388853707.11337.27.camel@Iris> <87zjnby4nu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388862282.11337.31.camel@Iris> <87bnzr8s03.fsf@wanadoo.es> <831u0mv1mw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388940425 5189 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 16:47:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:47:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 17:47:13 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 1Vzqr2-0002sj-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:47:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzqr1-00063c-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzqqu-00063J-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:47:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzqqp-0001Pj-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:47:04 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:56053 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzqql-0001PT-1Q; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A5DEB380D84; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:46:54 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <831u0mv1mw.fsf@gnu.org> 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:167376 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > Not entirely a red herring, because the Emacs front-ends only support > a small fraction of the available commands. A cursory look into > vc-git.el indicates that it uses about 10% to 20% of the git > commands. My goal in designing VC way back when was to capture the common features of common workflows across multiple VCSes - where originally in 1992 "multiple" meant SCCS and RCS. I was very focused on having a single command do the next logical thing in the checkout-edit-checkin cycle. -- Eric S. Raymond