Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Teemu Likonen <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:30:34 +0300
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I think Git is liked so much because it gives a lot of power to user.
> There was this time when the "Git opposition" had some/many
> philosophical reason why a DVCS software shouldn't allow user do various
> things. From certain point of view they can be right but users chose Git
> anyway because it has the functionality that they want.

If it were that simple, Emacs would have been much more popular editor
than it is now.  Yet, somehow that didn't quite happen.  Perhaps "a
lot of power" is not the single most important reason, after all.