From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:07:43 -0500 Message-ID: <87d2k6cf34.fsf@gmail.com> 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> <87lhyu71pt.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388956092 3396 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 21:08:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 21:08:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 22:08:18 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 1Vzuvg-0007kW-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:08:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59427 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzuvg-0002l3-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:08:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuvV-0002ki-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:08:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuvO-0000xn-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuvO-0000xe-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 16:07:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuvN-000782-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:07:57 +0100 Original-Received: from pool-173-77-17-82.nycmny.east.verizon.net ([173.77.17.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:07:57 +0100 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-173-77-17-82.nycmny.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 22:07:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-77-17-82.nycmny.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p7krH0qpk0NxYdFm9ahmYxFEWy8= 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:167400 Archived-At: You are free to use whatever you like and do the amount of learning effort that pleases you, of course. What I dispute is your implicit claim of "git is complex, not-so-well documented and has a not-so-good UI, hence learning it will be hard." For Eli's definition of "learning", the claim may be true. For somebody else's definition of "learning", it is not. Not everyone is interested on a thorough study of the tool "just in case" when some simple instructions are enough to incorporate their edits into Emacs' repository. There is a connection between the scope of ones knowledge and the scope of ones contribution. For those cases, a web search will quickly provide the solution. One advantage of belonging to a huge user base is that somebody, somewhere, had your same problem on the past, and helpful experts abound. Precisely, but the experts do not abound; the Eli Zaretskiis are rare.