From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jordi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:40:41 -0500 Message-ID: <1388846441.11337.25.camel@Iris> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388841220.11337.21.camel@Iris> <87bnzrzuzp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388846457 4054 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 14:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 15:41:04 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 1VzSPO-0003W1-Cb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:41:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzSPN-0004Qr-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:41:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57401) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzSPD-0004Pr-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzSP4-0001xf-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzSP4-0001xb-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from beast.bic.mni.mcgill.ca ([132.206.178.199]:54132 helo=[IPv6:::1]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzSP4-0006q7-6d; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:40:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bnzrzuzp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:167292 Archived-At: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 15:23 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > At any rate, I don't think we are likely to get better advice than from > Stephen Turnbull. He is the XEmacs maintainer, and XEmacs has now used > Mercurial as its version control system for several years. I don't think Stephen's a particular expert in this any more than I am. I have used Mercurial as a GNU maintainer for Octave for many years, and I have used git in other situations. I'm as qualified as he may be. And I think Mercurial is a good choice, and I will choose it again, and again. - Jordi G. H.