From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:54:52 +0900 Message-ID: <87iou1j6hf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388771781 27342 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 17:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 18:56:27 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 1Vz8yw-0006vk-9D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:56:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8yv-0002C4-UQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:56:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8ym-0002Bn-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8yf-0007Wu-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:54544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8yW-0006yB-OI; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:56:00 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FFB970A32; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 02:54:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 144921A26F6; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 02:54:53 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:167201 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond writes: > I don't understand loving bzr; my experiences with it have been > unpleasant. If you use basically centralized workflows (and Emacs's *is* basically centralized -- that's why people bitch so much about feature freeze, for example), bzr has a lot of optimizations for that. > Mind you, I think opposing git adoption is like trying to stop the > tide from coming in, at this point (and have my own mixed feelings > about that). You got that right. I don't have any mixed feelings about it, though; Bazaar does its best to prevent me from working the way I think, while Mercurial got its colocated branching wrong, although the mq extension makes up for that to a great extent.