On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:51:23 +0100
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Gregory Collins <greg@maptuit.com> writes:
> 
> > I'd also argue that despite some impetuous claims to the contrary,
> > the reports of emacs' imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.
> 
> Well, a distributed approach to living would be having a number of
> bugs crawling about one's corpse.

can't help it, think cells :) you are distributed.

Emacs development already uses a distributed version control system.

1. GNU Emacs @ savannah.gnu.org

Which is equivalent to the git repository linus-2.6.

2. Emacs.app @ sourceforge.net

3. Carbon Emacs http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html

4. Aqua Emacs http://aquamacs.org/

... others ...

Which are equivalent socially to the lieutenant repositories.

If you consider each of the CVS branches to be a DVCS repo, there are more as well.
Using a tool like git would simply make all of them compatible.

> Emacs certainly has no shortage of bugs.
>