From: Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@gmail.com>
To: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Cc: "esr@thyrsus.com" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
"Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@octave.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 17:08:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALf2awS8-XsxD5LQnLC8sniZ85aYwrCFGpiJZf0E1N-B965Tyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3166302.gI3LmCZv1L@descartes>
2014/1/4 Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>:
> On Friday 03 January 2014 16:52:32 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> I know a majority opinion lies with git due to various cultural
>> factors. I would, however, want to make a case for Mercurial being a
>> better choice for a GNU package.
>
> The Emacs community is largely using git. I just checked which methods are
> used for `el-get' packages. By far the largest are git based (git, github)
> with more than 61%. The next largest is http (http, http-tar) with ~18%.
> Mercurial is used for less than 2% of the packages.
>
> Many major Emacs packages already use git: Org, Gnus, AUCTeX, ESS, GNU ELPA,
> ...
>
> As you said the main arguments are social and not technical. And the
> community is the major social asset of any free software project. Therefore
> it seems like a bad idea to switch to anything but git. I think Stefan
> already made it clear that it's either git or bzr.
>
> Regards
> Rüdiger
>
> Raw data from el-get (2c93601b3c907)
>
> ((fossil . 1)
> (go . 6)
> (no-op . 2)
> (cvs . 4)
> (git-svn . 2)
> (builtin . 11)
> (ftp . 5)
> (emacsmirror . 9)
> (bzr . 10)
> ("github" . 2)
> (svn . 11)
> (hg . 17)
> (elpa . 24)
> (http . 145)
> (emacswiki . 89)
> (git . 55)
> (http-tar . 20)
> (github . 518))
>
> I didn't count git-svn, emacsmirror for git. And didn't check the vcs used by
> packages managed through elpa, go, or other methods. So 62% is a rather low
> estimate.
For reference, a little grepping in the recipes of MELPA
(http://melpa.milkbox.net/) reveals a similar bias towards Git:
$ grep ':fetcher hg' * | wc -l
31
$ grep ':fetcher git' * | grep -v github | wc -l
29
$ grep ':fetcher github' * | wc -l
1186
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-04 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-03 21:52 Prefer Mercurial instead of git Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 10:20 ` David Engster
2014-01-04 10:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-04 13:13 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 13:29 ` David Engster
2014-01-04 14:23 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 14:38 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 15:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 15:24 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 16:51 ` David Engster
2014-01-04 17:16 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 17:31 ` David Engster
2014-01-04 17:40 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 18:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-01-04 19:26 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-04 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-05 11:07 ` Leo Liu
2014-01-04 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 18:25 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-06 12:26 ` Darren Hoo
2014-01-06 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-06 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-06 19:33 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 14:40 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 12:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-05 13:19 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 13:25 ` Florian Weimer
2014-01-05 13:55 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 15:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 16:18 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 16:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-05 17:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 23:26 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-06 0:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-06 1:01 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-06 0:03 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-05 17:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-05 23:03 ` Dov Feldstern
2014-01-05 23:23 ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-05 23:37 ` Dov Feldstern
2014-01-06 4:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-05 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 14:12 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-04 16:08 ` Sebastian Wiesner [this message]
2014-01-04 16:41 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 18:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 18:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-01-04 19:04 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 19:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 16:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-05 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 16:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 17:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 18:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 21:07 ` Sean Sieger
2014-01-06 0:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-06 0:21 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2014-01-06 0:30 ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-06 2:24 ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-06 16:51 ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-06 17:13 ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-06 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 3:13 ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-05 17:16 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-06 0:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-05 2:14 ` Karl Fogel
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2014-01-06 13:08 grischka
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