From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: preferring mercurial Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:50:09 +0900 Message-ID: <878uuof43y.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <3905544.suqMZffgM5@descartes> <874n5d6whz.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> <87iottf4fe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87txdc5fhl.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> 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 1389354691 21159 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2014 11:51:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=BCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Neal Becker , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Orieux Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 10 12:51:36 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 1W1ach-0000ha-8I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:51:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1acg-0005TZ-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45323) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1acX-0005TH-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:51:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1acP-00030k-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:51:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:38050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1acP-0002t3-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517FC9708E0; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:50:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 462D91A2E82; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:50:09 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87txdc5fhl.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:167998 Archived-At: Fran=C3=A7ois Orieux writes: > I don't know to, but you can't say "git is better" > and say after you don't know about hg. And I didn't. I said I like it better (I've used both heavily), and I said the model of version control *presented to the user* (not to the developer) is cleaner. > Git is excellent and a good choice for emacs. But by taking into account > all the pro and cons of both tools, we must admit that the sole thing > that really remains is that git is popular: git is chosen because > "everybody" chose this tool. Why not afterall. There is another thing. Other things being equal, I think the Emacs developers as a group prefer tools that say "Hi, I'm the git VCS. Hack me!" I've never been tempted to hack hg (and I *like* Python), and considered hacking bzr only to help a friend (which I quickly learned was not worth it). Certainly some senior Emacs developers have expressed a strong preference for a VCS that doesn't need to be hacked, and undoubtedly a fair amount of hacking around git by somebody is needed to help them achieve comfortable workflows. Whether it's worth it is their decision.