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: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 05:33:40 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140104103340.GA22585@thyrsus.com> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388831631 22649 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 10:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 10:33:51 +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 11:33:58 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 1VzOYG-0006Hn-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 11:33:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzOYF-0001eQ-Aj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzOY9-0001e3-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:33:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzOY5-0008La-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:33:49 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:44040 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzOY0-0008LM-Nw; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:33:40 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44820380E1C; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 05:33:40 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:167273 Archived-At: David Kastrup : > Jordi Guti=E9rrez Hermoso writes: >=20 > > My main argument in favour of hg is not technical, but rather social. > > For GNU, I think it is far more important to support a project that > > aligns with GNU's aims, >=20 > Emacs shot itself in this foot with Bzr already. +1. And I say that as someone who *likes* hg and wishes it had won. Repeating the bzr mistake would be stupid, stupid, *stupid*. --=20 Eric S. Raymond