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: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:10:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83eh4pxz8e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <83ob3uxfr2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388736617 18584 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 08:10:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 08:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 09:10:22 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 1Vyzpm-0005As-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:10:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyzpl-00010K-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59042) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyzpe-00010F-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyzpa-00032z-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:10:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:55312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyzpa-00032e-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYT00100FPXRO00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:10:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYT001ESG0WLB90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:10:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:167122 Archived-At: > From: joakim@verona.se > Cc: Stefan Monnier , kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 07:33:00 +0100 > > Keeping Eli happy is imho a pretty important use case for the vcs used > by Emacs. No, really. We don't have many hard-core contributors. Thank you. > Perhaps it would be possible to use bzr on top of a git repo, such that > everyone can be happy? No, this isn't workable. I tried that in the past with several git repositories. The bzr-git plugin is unfinished (the biggest shortcoming is that it doesn't support pushing), and its developer officially announced he no longer works on it.