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: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 02:54:33 +0900 Message-ID: <87zjnaiaau.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388841220.11337.21.camel@Iris> <87bnzrzuzp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388846441.11337.25.camel@Iris> <8738l2k4hh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1388927967.11337.32.camel@Iris> 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 1388944500 15066 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 17:55:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 17:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jordi =?utf-8?Q?Guti=C3=A9rrez?= Hermoso Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 18:55:05 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 1Vzrug-0001Gg-2W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:55:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58869 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzruf-0001nO-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59510) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzruV-0001lU-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:54:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzruO-0002bs-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:46371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzruG-0002am-H9; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:54:36 -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 F415D970863; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:54:33 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E591F1A2E7D; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:54:33 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <1388927967.11337.32.camel@Iris> 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:167383 Archived-At: Jordi Guti=C3=A9rrez Hermoso writes: > Mercurial is a good choice, Which is the first thing that *I* wrote about it. Hm? > despite being less popular than git. Still, it's not as good a choice as git, *because* it's less popular than git, in particular, among Emacs developers. You could argue that at least three very senior developers (if RMS isn't the third, *somebody* will appear :-) prefer bzr, and might very well prefer hg, and that's more important than mere numbers. I can't refute that argument, but I sure can, and do, disagree with the conclusion. I have a bunch of further comments on the specifics of Jordi's post, but they're off-topic for now, so I'm replying to him directly. Interested parties, let one of us know.