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: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:54:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83r4iu3idy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ehf1cwc4.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <20130331220136.GA16863@saturn> <20130401070006.1b17508d3c3c69b69ac22bc7@gmail.com> <20130331234002.GC16863@saturn> <87hajr9iqy.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364795666 32562 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2013 05:54:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 05:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 01 07:54:54 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 1UMXhl-0008TE-Qb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:54:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXhN-0002EL-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXhI-0002Di-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXhG-00041S-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:60099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXhG-00041M-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKK00M00AYGMU00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:54:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKK00MQ4B2KGCG0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:54:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hajr9iqy.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:158504 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:50:29 +0900 > Cc: Xue Fuqiao , Michael Welsh Duggan , > Leo Liu , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Emacs developers as a group are pretty sensitive to improvements in > the VCS, and therefore it would be "nice" if they could have the > leading VCS most of the time. > > It is my opinion that the architecture of git (including the plethora > of plumbing commands that people seem to love to hate) makes it the > odds-on favorite for the role of "leading VCS", more than Mercurial. Then why did XEmacs choose Mercurial, and did not switch even now?