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: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:49:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83r48qxg6e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> <83vby2xo6x.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388695781 9036 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2014 20:49:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 20:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bozhidar Batsov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 02 21:49:47 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 1VypD8-0007wN-VT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 21:49:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypD8-0003VZ-Kc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypCz-0003MJ-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:49:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypCv-0004KZ-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:59960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VypCv-0004KT-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYS00900K7ICY00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:49:31 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYS009NOKIH7S40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:49:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: 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:167076 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 20:40:40 +0200 > From: Bozhidar Batsov > Cc: Eric Raymond , Karl Fogel , > emacs-devel > > Try running bzr with Python 3 for instance... Probably this is never going > to happen. I took quite some time for > bzr to become compatible with Python 2.7. Why should I care what version of Python is used under the hood? (Mine is 2.6.6, btw.) > Git works pretty well on Windows these days Pretty well my foot: it requires a complete separate shell set up with a separate PATH, to keep its singular version of MSYS out of my main development environment. > bzr has some pretty serious weaknesses - its conflict resolution mechanism > is terrible for instance. There's a single command to learn, and once you done that, you will never have any problems with conflicts. > On the Emacs side of things - git users can benefit from the power of magit > and with bzr we have only vc-dir to work with. > I think this is a tide not worth fighting. I had some problems years ago > migrating from SVN (and the associated mindset) to > git, but once I grokked git I've never looked back. Didn't I tell that I do use git?