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: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:26:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87fvp38s6f.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388841220.11337.21.camel@Iris> <87bnzrzuzp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388846290.11337.24.camel@Iris> <877gafzset.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388849055.11337.26.camel@Iris> <87fvp3snak.fsf@engster.org> <1388855790.11337.29.camel@Iris> <87bnzrslfh.fsf@engster.org> <1388857210.11337.30.camel@Iris> <20140104183458.GA3124@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388863601 16556 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 19:26:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:26:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 20:26:47 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 1VzWrt-0004qN-Cy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:26:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWrs-0002SI-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWrl-0002SB-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:26:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWrf-00074V-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWrf-00074R-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 14:26:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzWrd-0004LH-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:26:29 +0100 Original-Received: from 222.red-83-41-58.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.41.58.222]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:26:29 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 222.red-83-41-58.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:26:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.red-83-41-58.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IQW7QO5R2Fj7XkspBm4NZ4F8E00= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:167310 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: [snip] > The impression I have of git (though I haven't used it) is that it is the > C++ of DVCSs - loaded up with feature after feature, many of marginal > utility. You are comparing apples to oranges. For a C++ programmer it is not enough to know just "C with classes", he needs to master a whole lot of features (save for the most arcane, perhaps), popular idioms and libraries. This or the programmer is acting deceivingly if he claims to be proficient with C++. But you can effectively use git by just knowing a tiny part of its functionality. Nobody would accuse you of cheating if you claim to be a git user without being aware of 98% of its features.