From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fgallina@gnu.org (=?utf-8?Q?Fabi=C3=A1n?= Ezequiel Gallina) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:29:23 -0300 Message-ID: <87txdmibz0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388680211 21958 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2014 16:30:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:30:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 02 17:30:17 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 1Vyl9y-0006Fa-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:30:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyl9x-0000QO-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60205) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyl9r-0000Lu-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:30:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyl9k-0006aX-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyl9k-0006aR-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [181.164.60.202] (port=34049 helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyl9j-0005jh-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:30:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2014 09:41:06 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:167038 Archived-At: Karl Fogel writes: > Richard Stallman writes: >>I don't insist that Emacs should stay with bzr. I chose to support >>bzr because it was still a contender at the time. > > Now that RMS has dropped the bzr requirement, I propose we move to git. > ESR has graciously offered to be technical lead for such a migration. > > Does anyone think we should stay on bzr, or choose a VCS other than git? > I'm +1 to git. Currently a fair amount of third party packages (and even the GNU ELPA repository) are using git, making it a sensible choice. -- Regards, Fabi=C3=A1n.