From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?] Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:44:28 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5633E4BC.2060608@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20151028192017.GC2538@acm.fritz.box> <87k2q6wy8p.fsf@linaro.org> <20151028223252.GD2538@acm.fritz.box> <87vb9qd2h4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20151028235340.GE2538@acm.fritz.box> <87ziz213wx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20151029123554.GB2510@acm.fritz.box> <87h9l995ec.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20151029170237.GF2510@acm.fritz.box> <563320DC.3070808@cs.ucla.edu> <20151030092747.GA2287@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446241489 10605 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2015 21:44:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 21:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 30 22:44:40 2015 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 1ZsHTU-0003uQ-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:44:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsHTT-0001xK-1y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34217) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsHTQ-0001xE-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsHTL-0003mq-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:34303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsHTL-0003mm-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9871116050B; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id SAxmoIUNrwGU; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:44:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A19160E4B; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:44:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id mF4_Mt-WQ0s4; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:44:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC96716050B; Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:44:28 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151030092747.GA2287@acm.fritz.box> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:192990 Archived-At: On 10/30/2015 02:27 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > What you seem to be saying is you use git because "everybody" else does. Not really. The Git maintainer is a friend of mine: we worked together for many years building mostly-proprietary software. He's one of the best hackers I know. Git in part uses implementation ideas that I was using before Git was a gleam in Linus Torvalds's eye. So I make no pretense of being impartial here. Nor do I use Git merely because "everybody" else does. I partly use Emacs for the same reason I use Git. It's free and reliable and efficient and supported by hackers whose judgment I trust.