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: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 23:03:47 +0000 (UTC) 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388963113 7023 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 23:05:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 23:05:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 00:05:18 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 1Vzwkw-0001M0-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:05:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzwkv-0004YG-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzwko-0004Vt-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzwkj-00027N-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzwkj-000255-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 18:05:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzwkh-0000wP-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:05:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-159-204-160.orange.net.il ([94-159-204-160.orange.net.il]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:05:03 +0100 Original-Received: from dovdevel by 94-159-204-160.orange.net.il with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:05:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.159.204.160 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130515 Firefox/17.0 Iceweasel/17.0.6) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:167407 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull xemacs.org> writes: > > Jordi Gutiérrez 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. > > I'm interested. Hats off to Jordi for his masterful job in support of mercurial! I am not an emacs dev, so I have no real right chiming in here. OTOH, this kind of decision being discussed on the public mailing list of a high- profile project like emacs (high-profile enough to make slashdot, anyway :P ) probably has an influence that is wider than just emacs, and so I'm allowing myself to post this anyway... 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... I don't have anything of substance to add to the discussion -- again, I think that Jordi has done a wonderful job presenting the merits of mercurial. However, since popularity seems to be such an important measure, I just wanted to register one more vote in favor of mercurial. :) Dov