From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Eglen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 23:55:44 +0000 Organization: University of Cambridge, Maths Message-ID: References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388706967 2462 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2014 23:56:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 23:56:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 00:56:13 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 1Vys7Z-00035M-AF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:56:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vys7Y-0006LR-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54069) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vys7P-0006L6-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:56:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vys7J-0005EO-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vys7J-0005E8-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:55:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vys7H-0002bx-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:55:55 +0100 Original-Received: from rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.17.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:55:55 +0100 Original-Received: from S.J.Eglen by rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:55:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+aC1kw7+CqeJz0gFq2PlaHNonpY= 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:167101 Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 02 2014, Karl Fogel wrote: > If there is significant support for a different system, then I guess we > should hold a poll. But my (tentative) expectation is that there will > be a pretty clear overall group preference for git -- I'm mainly posting > this so there's a place for people to follow up to express their > preference, so we can quickly get a sense of whether moving to git is > the obvious call for the group as a whole, not just for those of us who > have been been expressing that preference for some time. +1 for git. John Wiegley's posts in this thread convinced me of this last year, and it seems nothing has changed to weaken the usefulness of git. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/158242 Stephen