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: Apologia for bzr Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:08:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqihw42f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> <83vby2xo6x.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102183432.GB13506@thyrsus.com> <83sit6xgfg.fsf@gnu.org> <8761q18kni.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> <838uuxxsxu.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388758129 24726 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 14:08:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 14:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tsdh@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 15:08:53 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 1Vz5Qi-0007bb-UY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:08:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5Qi-0004bC-Eh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:08:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42159) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5Qb-0004Uk-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5QW-00051J-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:08:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:57130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5QV-000513-S0; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:08:40 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYT00400WID7700@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:08:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYT004F4WME1Q60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:08:38 +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:167161 Archived-At: > From: Leo Liu > Cc: Tassilo Horn , esr@thyrsus.com, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:49:05 +0800 > > On 2014-01-03 18:26 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > More importantly, the glossary, at least git's glossary, is not going > > to help here. Let's take this example I showed earlier > > GIT's manual pages, good or bad, is not the issue. They are the issue in this thread, because it started when I was asked about my reasons for hating it. Perhaps you meant to post in another thread (of which there are too many)? > I think getting new blood into emacs devel is critical or we might find > ourselves in the same situation as bzr a few years later. I agree about the need, but have my doubts about the results. We've heard similar arguments for switching from CVS, too. I hope I will be proven wrong.