Re: preferring mercurial

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> > all the pro and cons of both tools, we must admit that the sole thing
> > that really remains is that git is popular:
> 
> Of course.  That's the whole reason for the change.  If it weren't for
> that, we'd stick to Bzr which serves us fine for Emacs's trunk.

Furthermore, the Mercurial fans bitching about this seem to forget that 
in the original post where I pushed for the change to git that *I prefer
Mercurial myself*.  Yet I use git, because the advantages of being part
of the largest and most active ecosystem outweigh the technical benefits
of Mercurial.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>