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: preferring mercurial Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:08:00 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140110140800.GA7559@thyrsus.com> References: <3905544.suqMZffgM5@descartes> <874n5d6whz.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> <87iottf4fe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87txdc5fhl.fsf@gaia.iap.fr> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389362887 21832 80.91.229.3 (10 Jan 2014 14:08:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld , Neal Becker , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Orieux , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 10 15:08:13 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 1W1ckv-0001Lp-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1cku-0006Oa-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1cko-0006NZ-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:08:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1ckj-0000O3-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:46265 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1ckj-0000Nt-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:08:01 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ECD4B3803D4; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:08:00 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:168005 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > > all the pro and cons of both tools, we must admit that the sole thing > > that really remains is that git is popular: > > Of course. That's the whole reason for the change. If it weren't for > that, we'd stick to Bzr which serves us fine for Emacs's trunk. Furthermore, the Mercurial fans bitching about this seem to forget that in the original post where I pushed for the change to git that *I prefer Mercurial myself*. Yet I use git, because the advantages of being part of the largest and most active ecosystem outweigh the technical benefits of Mercurial. -- Eric S. Raymond