I agree with most of the points you make and I’d love for Emacs to adopt git, but judging from the last discussion on the topic a few months ago (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-03/msg00776.html), I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon.

Btw, Richard said then he wanted to give bzr’s maintainer a reasonable amount of time to fix some bugs (or so I recall). If this hasn’t happened - there’s one more argument in favour of using git. Relying on a poorly maintained project is generally worse than relying on a unpopular project.  

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Cheers,
Bozhidar


On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Bozhidar Batsov wrote:

> On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> > () esr@thyrsus.com (mailto:esr@thyrsus.com) (Eric S. Raymond)
> > () Thu, 2 Jan 2014 04:53:47 -0500 (EST)
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> > Sticking to a moribund version-control system will compound and
> > exacerbate the project's difficulty in attracting new talent.
> >  
> > It impedes people stuck on old (low spec) computers, too. For example,
> > in my adventures w/ git-bzr, i have managed to do the initial clone, but
> > 512M RAM is not enough to achieve the tantalizingly compact footprint
> > that "git gc --aggressive" purports. I'm a stubborn fool and will find
> > a way eventually (suggestions from git-bzr / git experts welcome!), but
> > it's an unqualified slog that i imagine is just not worth the trouble
> > for others in similar straits.
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> I’m using git-bzr myself and one of my computers overheats while doing the initial clone from bzr :-)  
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