From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:17:09 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <877gaege0q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <3166302.gI3LmCZv1L@descartes> <1388853707.11337.27.camel@Iris> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388967614 18411 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 00:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 00:20:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 01:20:21 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 1VzxvY-0002rT-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxvY-00058u-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxvP-00056h-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxvK-0002ED-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:20:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43083) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxvJ-0002Bu-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxvI-0002Mm-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f43ad7.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.58.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f43ad7.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:20:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f43ad7.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lLRCjZflDPWyhYNwsX6BZV6LecU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:167416 Archived-At: Sebastian Wiesner writes: > Am 04.01.2014 17:41 schrieb "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" : >> >> On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 17:08 +0100, Sebastian Wiesner wrote: >> >> > For reference, a little grepping in the recipes of MELPA >> > (http://melpa.milkbox.net/) reveals a similar bias towards Git: >> > >> > $ grep ':fetcher hg' * | wc -l >> > 31 >> > $ grep ':fetcher git' * | grep -v github | wc -l >> > 29 >> > $ grep ':fetcher github' * | wc -l >> > 1186 >> >> This looks like a bias towards github, not git. And this is a problem, >> not something to be praised. > > Oh dear. I didn't praise anything. I simply provided data about the > popularity of Git and Mercurial within the community of independent > Emacs developers, which indicates that Git is by far the most popular > DVCS among these developers. That's a fact, like it or not. > > I didn't make any judgement as to whether this is good or bad, or even > relevant at all. Do whatever you want with it. Actually, I agree with Jordi that the bias towards Github, a rather proprietary service, is a problem. We are not going to solve that problem by leaving Git alone. -- David Kastrup