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Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else |
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Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:54:36 +0100 |
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Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Ted,
> ESR> But I think it's worth noting that pretty much all the good
> ESR> things being said about git apply equally to other DVCSes such as
> ESR> Mercurial, bzr, monotone, darcs, and Codeville. All of these
> ESR> have very similar basic models based on commit-before-merge and
> ESR> push/pull operations.
>
> Has there ever been an ELisp-based VCS? Should we at least consider
> it? The advantages are significant for this group of developers, and
> it would certainly benefit other users. The major disadvantage
> (besides having to write the code), I imagine, is incompatibility with
> other VCSs, and that can be addressed by a bridge to CVS/Git/Arch/etc
> as deemed appropriate (similar to the git-svn bridge).
I'd say that this would be a monster-job where we simply don't have the
man-power to do that. And I don't see what those significant advantages
would be. Could you elaborate on that?
IMO an elisp solution would bring at least those drawbacks:
- huge effort to write and maintain it
- since we get it right and reliable it may take very long
- worse performance than a highly optimized C solution
- since emacs is single-threaded any VC operation would block emacs
So my opinion is that we'd be better off to use one of the excellent
existing dVCSs.
Bye,
Tassilo
- It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Eric S. Raymond, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Miles Bader, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, David Kastrup, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Tassilo Horn, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Ted Zlatanov, 2008/01/02
- Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Richard Stallman, 2008/01/04
Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else, Romain Francoise, 2008/01/02