From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Rockway Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Bazaar repository Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:43:05 -0500 Message-ID: <87ve3oes12.fsf@bar.jrock.us> References: <87skyvse7k.fsf@xmission.com> <86ejae96t4.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <47DA7943.6090806@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205544636 23037 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2008 01:30:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:30:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 15 02:31:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JaLEl-0003m4-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:31:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLEC-0007vL-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLE8-0007v4-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLE6-0007uZ-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaLE6-0007uP-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl092-134-156.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.134.156] helo=bar.jrock.us) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaLE5-0001wX-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from jon by bar.jrock.us with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JaKUL-00054Z-Ky for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:43:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47DA7943.6090806@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:10:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Greylist: delayed 2833 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:20 EDT X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92642 Archived-At: * On Fri, Mar 14 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> If Mercurial had the ability to truly support multiple branches in >> the same folder (with out requiring me to merge all branches before I >> can pull - pull works only if there is a single tip/branch), I would >> have preferred it mainly because it just needs PYTHON and nothing else >> (GIT needs PERL and SHELL). > > > How did they do that? It needs both perl and sh? Is there really any > perl programmer who writes code that way? I don't think they mix Perl and shell in the same files. It's just that git is a collection of written-in-C "plumbing" and then some helpful scripts on top of that plumbing. Some of the helpful scripts are written in Perl, some are written in shell. So to use git, you need a C compiler, a UNIX shell, and Perl. But I think that setup is actually more common than Python, so it's not a real loss. (Except on Windows that doesn't have a shell or a as-good-as-UNIX perl. But Windows is lacking in a lot of other features too.) Finally, for the record, git is not a good place to learn Perl from :) But hey, it works. Regards, Jonathan Rockway -- print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"