From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git mirrors Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:12:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87d3e4gttq.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <8762k095n4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871uuksdxi.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lissh32y.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zkh8e286.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318299159 17790 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2011 02:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 04:12:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDRpW-0007Tx-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:12:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDRpW-0001vU-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46287) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDRpT-0001vN-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDRpS-0005Yb-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm4.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.20]:46696 helo=telefonica.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDRpR-0005YK-Tb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost4.adm.correo ([10.20.102.125]) by IMPaqm4.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id jDzs1h00c2iL0W23QECMhu; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:12:21 +0200 Original-Received: from qcore ([83.45.165.175]) by IMPmailhost4.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id jECJ1h00H3nNm431kECLCe; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:12:20 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-original-sender: 981711563@telefonica.net In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:42:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.4.138.20 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:144847 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: >>> git's supposed technical advantage over bzr is a matter of discussion. >> >> Perhaps, but that's not actually so important. =C2=A0It's clear that git= is >> technically very good, that it's seen much wider adoption than any of >> its competitors, and that it has the bulk of the mindshare in the >> "distributed source control" arena. > > Perhaps, but I'm specifically countering =C3=93scar's affirmation that bzr > is a "technically inferior package". Once upon a time Emacs decided to use a DVCS. Mercurial and Git were the obvious choices. But... lo! Emacs chose a system that, at the time, was unable to cope with the volume requirements of the project and had to wait for more than a year until it was barely usable. Now, go and say to any Git or Mercurial developer that bzr wasn't a technically inferior choice. The decision on Bzr was political, not technical, and now objections are made to adding support for other Free tools as a service to those contributors that consider them more convenient. What I'm saying is that that does not send a friendly signal to other Free Software projects and representing GNU as an unfriendly competitor of other Free tools harms the cause of Free Software. [snip]