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: preferring mercurial Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:55:29 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140110155529.GB8178@thyrsus.com> References: <3905544.suqMZffgM5@descartes> <874n5d6whz.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> <87iottf4fe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87txdc5fhl.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> <20140110140800.GA7559@thyrsus.com> <1389367375.5784.20.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 1389369366 7584 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2014 15:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:56:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Neal Becker , emacs-devel@gnu.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Stefan Monnier , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Orieux To: Jordi =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 10 16:56:13 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 1W1eRQ-0004BI-7N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:56:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57511 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1eRP-00035x-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:56:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35043) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1eRI-0002yj-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1eRE-0000Yd-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:46839 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1eRD-0000YZ-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:55:59 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 54DD1380687; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:55:29 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1389367375.5784.20.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:168015 Archived-At: Jordi Guti=E9rrez Hermoso : > On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 09:08 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >=20 > > 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 >=20 > 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. --=20 Eric S. Raymond