From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:37:33 +0900 Message-ID: <87y7qfug5u.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87bqne87ur.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <10609.1163264429@olgas.newt.com> <87fycphhyr.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <87odrdzci9.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87ac2w45e0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20061113112024.GC22987@intevation.de> <20061113165511.GC28313@intevation.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163457582 1857 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 22:39:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 23:39:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjkRg-0003ip-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:38:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjkRf-00075N-Me for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjkQu-0006q1-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:37:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjkQs-0006o8-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:37:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjkQr-0006o1-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:37:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GjkQq-0003MQ-O7; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:37:37 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-98-080.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.98.80] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1GjkQo-0007Rl-4o; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:37:34 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B56542F43; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:37:33 +0900 (JST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <20061113165511.GC28313@intevation.de> (Thomas Arendsen Hein's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 17\:55\:11 +0100") Original-Lines: 16 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62255 Archived-At: Thomas Arendsen Hein writes: >> Riff does not mean "rip off." > > My dictionary only provided translations which I don't fit to the > context for me. What do you mean? I'd say it means something like "a creative response to". Clearly mercurial _was_ a response to git, and sort of occupies the same "idea space" to a degree, but it also attempts to provide its own unique elements. -miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Walter Hines Page