From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:51:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87mz6y8y3j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163429565 16857 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 14:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Arendsen Hein , Juanma Barranquero , Bill Wohler , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 15:52:38 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 1GjdAb-0001SA-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:52:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjdAa-0000su-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjdAN-0000qe-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjdAM-0000qI-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjdAM-0000qA-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.141.58.119] (helo=km1136.keymachine.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GjdAK-0003Xr-Ik; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:52:05 -0500 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.de (xdslcs040.osnanet.de [89.166.146.40]) (authenticated bits=0) by km1136.keymachine.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kADEpwrj001264; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:51:58 +0100 Original-Received: from wilde by kenny.sha-bang.de with local (Kenny MUA v.0409034.42) ID 1GjdAE-00083W-Si; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:51:58 +0100 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 22\:11\:18 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) 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:62220 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Thomas Arendsen Hein writes: >>> He provides pretty good arguments _against_ subversion, but also >>> addresses mercurial vs. git a bit (mercurial is in some sense a riff on >>> git, btw). >> >> If I interpret "riff" as "rip off", I have to disagree here. > > Riff does not mean "rip off." So what does it mean here? I'm no native speaker and wasn't able to find something in the dictionary which seemed to fit in the context. sascha -- Sascha Wilde : "GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple : actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." : (Doug Gwyn - 22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)