From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "François Orieux" <orieux@iap.fr>
Cc: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>,
"Neal Becker" <ndbecker2@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: preferring mercurial
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:50:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uuof43y.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txdc5fhl.fsf@gaia.iap.fr>
François Orieux writes:
> I don't know to, but you can't say "git is better"
> and say after you don't know about hg.
And I didn't. I said I like it better (I've used both heavily), and I
said the model of version control *presented to the user* (not to the
developer) is cleaner.
> Git is excellent and a good choice for emacs. But by taking into account
> all the pro and cons of both tools, we must admit that the sole thing
> that really remains is that git is popular: git is chosen because
> "everybody" chose this tool. Why not afterall.
There is another thing. Other things being equal, I think the Emacs
developers as a group prefer tools that say "Hi, I'm the git VCS.
Hack me!" I've never been tempted to hack hg (and I *like* Python),
and considered hacking bzr only to help a friend (which I quickly
learned was not worth it).
Certainly some senior Emacs developers have expressed a strong
preference for a VCS that doesn't need to be hacked, and undoubtedly a
fair amount of hacking around git by somebody is needed to help them
achieve comfortable workflows. Whether it's worth it is their decision.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-10 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 12:35 preferring mercurial Neal Becker
2014-01-09 13:11 ` Tim Visher
2014-01-09 13:53 ` Neal Becker
2014-01-09 13:44 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-09 14:49 ` François Orieux
2014-01-09 17:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 9:54 ` François Orieux
2014-01-10 11:48 ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2014-01-10 12:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 11:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-01-10 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 14:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 15:22 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 15:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 16:09 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 15:03 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 19:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 19:54 ` David Engster
2014-01-10 19:55 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-11 15:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-11 16:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-15 17:07 ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-15 16:49 ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-09 15:42 ` Yuri Khan
2014-01-10 15:16 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-09 20:28 ` Barry Warsaw
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