From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:50:15 +0100 Message-ID: <85y7qfvigo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87mz6y8y3j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87bqne87ur.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <10609.1163264429@olgas.newt.com> <87fycphhyr.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <87odrdzci9.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87ac2w45e0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163407864 5127 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 08:51:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: thomas@intevation.de, Bill Wohler , Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader , rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 09:50:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjXWi-0004Yp-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:50:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjXWi-0007IZ-0h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjXWW-0007Ev-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:50:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjXWV-0007Dm-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:50:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjXWU-0007D7-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:50:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GjXWU-0001Tt-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:50:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GjXWL-0003Go-DP; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:50:25 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E694F1CD9DA7; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:50:15 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Sascha Wilde In-Reply-To: (Sascha Wilde's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 09\:41\:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62178 Archived-At: Sascha Wilde writes: [...] > One big obstacle with git (which he mentions, too) is the > user interface. With a project like Emacs I think its rather > essential, that the SCM is easy to use for developers, and most > developers are used to CVS. Mercurial is designed to be very > approachable to people knowing CVS. In my opinion, any SCM system that is not fully supported by a stock Emacs 22 on all major operating systems where Emacs runs on is not acceptable for managing Emacs 23. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum