From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:38:26 +0300 Message-ID: <831uaskhvh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130401203140.171a6d45@anarchist> <515A9D39.1030702@taydin.org> <87r4itys91.fsf@mithlond.arda> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364920742 27525 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2013 16:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ta@taydin.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Teemu Likonen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 02 18:39:29 2013 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 1UN4F7-0008Hv-79 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:39:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4Ei-0003Yu-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4Ee-0003TU-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4Ec-0006qe-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:50185) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4Ec-0006qJ-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKM00A00ZF52N00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:37:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKM00AMPZJ52R00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:37:54 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87r4itys91.fsf@mithlond.arda> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:158551 Archived-At: > From: Teemu Likonen > Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:30:34 +0300 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I think Git is liked so much because it gives a lot of power to user. > There was this time when the "Git opposition" had some/many > philosophical reason why a DVCS software shouldn't allow user do various > things. From certain point of view they can be right but users chose Git > anyway because it has the functionality that they want. If it were that simple, Emacs would have been much more popular editor than it is now. Yet, somehow that didn't quite happen. Perhaps "a lot of power" is not the single most important reason, after all.