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: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:56:12 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080103025612.GH4822@thyrsus.com> References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> 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 1199328980 9024 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 02:56:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 02:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 03:56:39 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 1JAGG4-00016L-LE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:56:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGFi-0003u9-BH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:56:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGFe-0003rc-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:56:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGFd-0003qi-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAGFd-0003qL-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:56:09 -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 1JAGFS-00017V-Ss; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:55:59 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 9D5E1830B03; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:56:12 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> 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:85964 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas : > Yes, there is a substantial difference between committing in a > distributed SCM like Git, and Mercurial (the latter is the one I > am most familiar with). Note to RMS: Giorgios's explanation is better than mine. I'm just learning these systems, but he is clearly very experienced and fluent with them. Giorgios, can I interest you in being a reviewer for my survey paper? You sound like you may one of the people I need looking over my shoulder as I try to design test and benchmarking suites for DVCSes. -- Eric S. Raymond