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 01:12:31 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87bnzqge8g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <3166302.gI3LmCZv1L@descartes> <1388853707.11337.27.camel@Iris> <87zjnby4nu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388862282.11337.31.camel@Iris> <87bnzr8s03.fsf@wanadoo.es> <831u0mv1mw.fsf@gnu.org> <87txdi74mc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ppo6tkjx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388967174 13717 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 00:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 00:12:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 01:13:00 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 1VzxoR-0006EG-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:12:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxoR-0001gm-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxoI-0001fk-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:12:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxoA-0000It-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:12:50 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxoA-0000Hw-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:12:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzxo9-0005ek-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:12:41 +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 01:12:41 +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 01:12:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 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:uKzYRjUrp4itKpwfdfqcDwNLLqs= 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:167413 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > IOW, a change in a major development tool is not an easy decision > precisely _because_ it requires one to learn the new tool, and learn > it thoroughly. Otherwise, the switch is a waste of energy. Saying > that the complexity is a red herring because one should simply > disregard the complex and the powerful features makes very little > sense to me. Git does an excellent job on the VC subset, so this is less absurd than it may seem to you. It's quite good and fast at merging and cranking out log and annotation files. > Would you suggest that someone uses Emacs as a fancy Notepad, just > because the rest is not really needed? I doubt that. If Notepad deals badly with R2L text, overlong lines and other stuff I want to be working with, Emacs will be preferable even for Notepad-level work. -- David Kastrup