From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dov Feldstern Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 01:37:43 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <87zjnaiaau.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87a9fa2etj.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388967612 18398 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 00:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 00:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 01:20:18 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 1VzxvW-0002mC-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:20:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59921 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxvV-00056v-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51243) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxGL-0004af-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:37:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxGK-0000rS-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:37:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qe0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c02::22d]:46980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzxGK-0000rM-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qe0-f45.google.com with SMTP id 6so17347802qea.4 for ; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:37:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=2n5MDVB05sFeXWWJLBbk5q5BFqrRI2ipDM01MoV9kaw=; b=Fl1H9DPYPfASa4WZZQB8B4QMG+LmK7zCdXut+gJjCV2xWYW5UVdph6dmdvuEzBHUiy DoIGhiVvTPJP0U/Na3g+JhUOo+PJ/MteO+gM5VEwjHqdeeWUGARdH8lHvtzPSXWGgU5D YIoA5w42aUNaskkNMv0MvzQMvYsPaIMgFOZK5QAW5df7LICSwXhBO1FDc1dGvHcTwOML cPKydQNmVpEK3DJOmKJbfW7ELuBQaYcWpJC3CsLcVQ+HlrpXyTWjbPfUJt3UGL8zdXOD /HQB16J53LVMUolK6+iN1SObGu2IUeh8nbvBlryesflILWNpeI6N8DfYE6lxbIqDVGwt cvcw== X-Received: by 10.224.104.3 with SMTP id m3mr26735300qao.53.1388965063255; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:37:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.229.196.67 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:37:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87a9fa2etj.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c02::22d X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 19:20:15 -0500 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:167415 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Karl Fogel wrote: > > Dov Feldstern writes: > >I realize that for emacs the choice has all but been made in favor of git, > >and certainly there are plenty of valid reasons for such a decision. But I > >still find it a little sad to see quite a few people here feeling compelled > >to choose git because of its popularity, despite their preference for > >mercurial... > > Oh, it's not "compelled" any more than any other aspect of this choice > is. Network effects are a technical reason too, in the end :-). By "compelled" I mean "compelled by circumstances", I'm not hinting at coercion of any sort... and I agree that network effects are real, and a valid consideration (though I'd consider them to be second-order).