From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:12:11 +0100 Message-ID: <3166302.gI3LmCZv1L@descartes> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388844788 20417 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 14:13:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "esr@thyrsus.com" , Jordi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 15:13:12 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 1VzRyS-0007Ck-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:13:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzRyR-00085M-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:13:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51533) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzRxh-0007DZ-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:12:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzRxa-0002M2-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:12:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([178.63.28.110]:37357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzRxZ-0002Kp-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:12:18 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF9B24B9D; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 15:12:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ptmx.org Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ptmx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yznmFy-iMwOd; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 15:12:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from descartes.localnet (p5DD554C7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.213.84.199]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C888D21BF7; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 15:12:13 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/4.11.3 (Linux/3.11.0-14-generic; KDE/4.11.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.28.110 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:167289 Archived-At: On Friday 03 January 2014 16:52:32 Jordi Guti=C3=A9rrez Hermoso wrote: > I know a majority opinion lies with git due to various cultural > factors. I would, however, want to make a case for Mercurial being a > better choice for a GNU package. The Emacs community is largely using git. I just checked which methods= are=20 used for `el-get' packages. By far the largest are git based (git, git= hub)=20 with more than 61%. The next largest is http (http, http-tar) with ~18= %. =20 Mercurial is used for less than 2% of the packages. Many major Emacs packages already use git: Org, Gnus, AUCTeX, ESS, GNU = ELPA,=20 ... As you said the main arguments are social and not technical. And the=20= community is the major social asset of any free software project. Ther= efore=20 it seems like a bad idea to switch to anything but git. I think Stefan= =20 already made it clear that it's either git or bzr. Regards R=C3=BCdiger Raw data from el-get (2c93601b3c907) ((fossil . 1) (go . 6) (no-op . 2) (cvs . 4) (git-svn . 2) (builtin . 11) (ftp . 5) (emacsmirror . 9) (bzr . 10) ("github" . 2) (svn . 11) (hg . 17) (elpa . 24) (http . 145) (emacswiki . 89) (git . 55) (http-tar . 20) (github . 518)) I didn't count git-svn, emacsmirror for git. And didn't check the vcs = used by=20 packages managed through elpa, go, or other methods. So 62% is a rathe= r low=20 estimate.