From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: endless version control debates [was Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes] Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:16:11 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <87aaswaf2t.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4A1FFF2C-5794-4D58-B26B-07CD7FC0BB74@gmail.com> <83d3xs4jw5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271967761 11306 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2010 20:22:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:22:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 22:22:39 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52ut-00065D-GR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:22:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O52us-0006to-K4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:22:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O52p2-0000aN-8r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37838 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O52p1-0000Ye-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52oy-0000Er-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:16:26 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52oy-0000Eb-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O52ow-00011W-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:16:22 +0200 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:16:22 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:16:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CUzTpNwnXbmU0VR1S7CqzEKJw+Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:124080 Archived-At: On 2010-04-22 18:52 +0100, Chad Brown wrote: >> It might not be completely useless. Nothing stops emacs from using >> multiple version control tools if a good synchronisation scheme can >> be found. > > The point of choosing Bazaar was to give the support of `Emacs uses > it' and `Emacs developers use it' to the official GNU VCS system. > Anything that encourages Emacs [developers] to use not-Bazaar hampers > that goal. That sounded like doctrine. What makes other free version systems less free than bzr and why should it be a problem to provide a mirror to the bzr repo that allow people to use the tool of their choice? Leo