From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@octave.org>
Cc: "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org,
"Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
"François Orieux" <orieux@iap.fr>
Subject: Re: preferring mercurial
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:55:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140110155529.GB8178@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389367375.5784.20.camel@Iris>
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org>:
> On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 09:08 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > Furthermore, the Mercurial fans bitching about this seem to forget
> > that in the original post where I pushed for the change to git that
> > *I prefer Mercurial myself*. Yet I use git
>
> Not much of a preference, then. Why not help us improve hg-git or
> advocate for Kiln Harmony to get freed up?
Because I don't believe anything I could do would reverse git's
runaway-leader status. I'm too busy to bother with futile gestures.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-10 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 12:35 preferring mercurial Neal Becker
2014-01-09 13:11 ` Tim Visher
2014-01-09 13:53 ` Neal Becker
2014-01-09 13:44 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-09 14:49 ` François Orieux
2014-01-09 17:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 9:54 ` François Orieux
2014-01-10 11:48 ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2014-01-10 12:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 11:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 14:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 15:22 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 15:55 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-01-10 16:09 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 15:03 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 19:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 19:54 ` David Engster
2014-01-10 19:55 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-11 15:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-11 16:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-15 17:07 ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-15 16:49 ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-09 15:42 ` Yuri Khan
2014-01-10 15:16 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-09 20:28 ` Barry Warsaw
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