From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Geisler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: preferring mercurial Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <3905544.suqMZffgM5@descartes> 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 1389805813 12012 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 17:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:10:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 18:10:21 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 1W3Tys-0007RP-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:10:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Tys-0002kr-05 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Tyl-0002gH-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Tyg-0007w7-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60882) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Tyg-0007vq-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3Tyd-00073G-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:10:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 50.56.228.100 ([50.56.228.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:10:03 +0100 Original-Received: from martin by 50.56.228.100 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:10:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 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: 50.56.228.100 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0) 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:168472 Archived-At: Rüdiger Sonderfeld c-plusplus.de> writes: > This has all been discussed here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00238.html > > On Thursday 09 January 2014 07:35:22 Neal Becker wrote: > > hg also has tortoisehg, which is a very nice mature gui. There is nothing > > like that for git. I have found 1 or 2 guis that are extremely limited in > > function. > > I don't think a GUI primarily for Windows (non-free software) is going to > persuade GNU Emacs developers. (And in my opinion `magit' is the best VCS > interface I have used so far.) Hi, I'm a Mercurial developer, but please don't let that scare you :) Saying that TortoiseHg is a GUI primarily for Windows is a mistake. It is a cross-platform Python program that runs on at least Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. I use it on Linux daily. It is packaged for at least Debian and Ubuntu. See http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/download/linux.html The confusion probably comes from the "Tortoise" prefix, which is also used by TortoiseSVN and some other version control GUIs. I believe the other GUIs are Windows only, and so I can understand that people who haven't looked deeper into things would think that TortoiseHg is also just for Windows. -- Martin Geisler