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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116038: On VCS-independent ways of identifying commits, and why they are desirable.
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:00:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140116150024.GA16878@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr488oulg.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> > +    particular version control system.  (At time of writing Emacs is
> > +    about to move to its third VCS and another move in the future is
>                             ^^^^^
>                             fourth
> RCS -> CVS -> Bzr
> 
> GNU Arch was semi-officially used for a while between CVS and Bzr, tho
> not for the main branch.

Wow.  That's a record; I've never actually seen more than three transitions
before.  I will correct.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-16 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1W3frI-0000Fq-CC@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2014-01-16 14:45 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116038: On VCS-independent ways of identifying commits, and why they are desirable Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16 15:00   ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-01-16 15:24     ` David Kastrup
2014-01-16 16:23       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 18:37         ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-16 20:01           ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 16:34   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-16 17:32     ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-16 18:17       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-16 19:38         ` Eric S. Raymond

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