From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:14:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <20071231130712.GB8641@thyrsus.com> <87y7b96az8.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87ir2dvzlw.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199247270 24472 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2008 04:14:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 04:14:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tassilo@member.fsf.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 02 05:14:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J9v0B-0005UP-AM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:14:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J9uzp-0005v7-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J9uzm-0005v2-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:14:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J9uzj-0005ue-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:14:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J9uzj-0005ub-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:14:19 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J9uzg-0004hC-9p; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-255-248.inter.net.il [83.130.255.248]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id JUB08495 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:13:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ir2dvzlw.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:29:47 +0900) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85848 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:29:47 +0900 > Cc: Tassilo Horn , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > To start using git, we need first get to the point the Linux kernel > > developers are at: lots of developers independently developing all > > kinds of extensions. _And_ we need a head maintainer who works on > > nothing else but integration of features she likes into the product > > that is eventually released. > > No we don't (how on earth did you reach that conclusion ?!). AFAIK, this is how Linux kernel development works, and that is the single most important basis for the git philosophy. > Git, like most modern source control systems, is pretty much a > _superset_ of CVS, and can happily be used with a CVS-like "central > server" (where it still handily beats the pants of CVS in almost every > respect). IMO, it hardly makes sense to switch, then, and it's not what Tassilo had in mind and put in writing, AFAIU.