From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:36:52 +0300 Message-ID: <8338v8khy3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130401203140.171a6d45@anarchist> <515A9D39.1030702@taydin.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364920588 25692 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2013 16:36:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Timur Aydin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 02 18:36:55 2013 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 1UN4Cc-0006bY-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:36:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4CD-0008Ns-Jz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:36:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4C8-0008Gx-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4C5-000618-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:35756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4C5-00060m-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKM00E00ZEZBO00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:36:20 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKM00E3HZGK8N20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:36:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <515A9D39.1030702@taydin.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:158550 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:56:25 +0300 > From: Timur Aydin > > On 4/2/2013 3:31 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > FWIW, I tend to think that people like git because of github more than because > > of git in particular. > > I think the overwhelming reason that people like git is that it is very > fast with very large repositories. I am developing on uClinux with a > close to 2GBytes repository. With big repository sizes, git is really > the only option by a very large margin ... Not sure what you are saying. The Emacs repo is about the same size, circa 1 GB (not counting the working tree), in both bzr and git, and they both handle this size well. Are you saying that Emacs is "small"?