From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:15:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87ehf1cwc4.fsf@maru.md5i.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364357719 25622 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2013 04:15:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:15:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 27 05:15:46 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 1UKhm4-0003Mg-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:15:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKhlg-0005ZG-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKhlc-0005Z7-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKhlZ-0000h2-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from md5i.com ([75.151.244.229]:60404 helo=maru.md5i.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKhlZ-0000fV-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:15:13 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=md5i.com; s=dkim; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:To:From; bh=X4LOeZJe8IWpG9lCmnoZaw2ACJHmaGW25kbw30Q+jfU=; b=LbAx66gdxv8IscxRm4MSs9BchNhdLGvEHqBZ4JqR2ydXMlRrTmSLKp7RiuGg702+snCMqowNlHxyzAdE/FL6FQ2lpBdgfprfJRthIrw2Vk4BQVntfxqVVsXYNmQVwZpV; Original-Received: from md5i by maru.md5i.com with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UKhlT-00056c-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:15:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:38:26 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 75.151.244.229 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:158263 Archived-At: "John Wiegley" writes: > We have often debated the merits of Git vs. Bazaar, and which one the GNU > project should use for Emacs development. I think now is an appropriate time > to revisit this decision. I see these Git versus Bazaar arguments pop up every now and then on this forum. I must admit my experience with Git has been better than that with Bazaar, but I have to ask, why isn't Mercurial being considered? From a license perspective, Mercurial is GPLv2+, while Git is GPLv2. I found Mercurial's command-line UI much easier to learn and understand than Git, and I believe the two are fairly comparable in power. Or maybe I should just shut up before I start a new round of endless DCVS discussion... -- Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@md5i.com)