From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:27:13 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080102152713.GF18853@thyrsus.com> References: <20080102132458.387D9830B03@snark.thyrsus.com> <87wsqs5lic.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199287628 8468 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2008 15:27:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:27:08 +0000 (UTC) To: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 02 16:27:28 2008 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 4.50) id 1JA5VA-0000hg-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:27:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA5Un-0003q8-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA5Ui-0003my-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:27:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA5Ui-0003lP-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:27:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA5Ui-0003lH-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:27:00 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JA5Uh-0001sN-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:26:59 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 25C78830B03; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:27:13 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wsqs5lic.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:85916 Archived-At: Romain Francoise : > "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > > > It is not yet time to anoint git (or anything else) as a winner, > > even by implication. We will need to carefully consider the > > strengths and weaknesses of each of these systems in relation to > > the specific needs of the Emacs project. > > An important aspect for us is how well the system is supported on > Savannah. Git has an advantage here because we already have an > official Git repo of Emacs on Savannah, with complete history dating > back to 1985. We just have to make it read-write. > > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git Hmmm...Romain, how is this maintained, is it with hook scripts from the CVS repo? Also, is ChangeLog information in the git history or as separate files? I believe lossless repo conversions to Mercurial and bzr from git are possible. And I seriously doubt the Savannah admins will refuse toi support either if we request it. So, this is very good news -- it will make moving easier. But it does not actually constrain what we choose. -- Eric S. Raymond