From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git mirrors Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:26:37 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <8762k095n4.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318066027 8284 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2011 09:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:27:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 08 11:27:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCTBL-0001pk-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:26:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCTBK-0004dK-Uf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59885) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCTBI-0004dD-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCTBH-0000qs-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:26:56 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RCTBH-0000qj-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:26:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCTBA-0001mC-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:26:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:26:48 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:26:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6H05k0SidlztM5on0K8Fmczb9Qg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:144737 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Ted Zlatanov wrote: > >> I think it would benefit the GNU Emacs project, the Emacs developers and >> maintainers, and the Emacs community as a whole if there was an official >> read-only Git mirror of the Emacs repository that was updated with every >> Bazaar push. > > I just want to make the point that since Bazaar is a GNU project, IMO > this would not benefit the GNU project as a whole. (I'm not saying don't > do it, just making a point.) No but it would benefit lots of others who use Emacs. bzr is unpredictable, slow and frequently doesnt work at all. Git mirrors generally do as well as being far faster and easier for a lot of people who use git in their daily lives because it works so well. Emacs also has a great git interface in Magit-