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Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git
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Dov Feldstern |
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Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Jan 2014 23:03:47 +0000 (UTC) |
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Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes:
>
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes:
>
> > Mercurial is a good choice,
>
> Which is the first thing that *I* wrote about it. Hm?
>
> > despite being less popular than git.
>
> Still, it's not as good a choice as git, *because* it's less popular
> than git, in particular, among Emacs developers. You could argue that
> at least three very senior developers (if RMS isn't the third,
> *somebody* will appear prefer bzr, and might very well prefer hg,
> and that's more important than mere numbers. I can't refute that
> argument, but I sure can, and do, disagree with the conclusion.
>
> I have a bunch of further comments on the specifics of Jordi's post,
> but they're off-topic for now, so I'm replying to him directly.
>
> Interested parties, let one of us know.
>
>
I'm interested.
Hats off to Jordi for his masterful job in support of mercurial!
I am not an emacs dev, so I have no real right chiming in here. OTOH, this
kind of decision being discussed on the public mailing list of a high-
profile project like emacs (high-profile enough to make slashdot, anyway :P
) probably has an influence that is wider than just emacs, and so I'm
allowing myself to post this anyway...
I realize that for emacs the choice has all but been made in favor of git,
and certainly there are plenty of valid reasons for such a decision. But I
still find it a little sad to see quite a few people here feeling compelled
to choose git because of its popularity, despite their preference for
mercurial...
I don't have anything of substance to add to the discussion -- again, I
think that Jordi has done a wonderful job presenting the merits of
mercurial. However, since popularity seems to be such an important measure,
I just wanted to register one more vote in favor of mercurial. :)
Dov
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, (continued)
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, David Kastrup, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git,
Dov Feldstern <=
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Karl Fogel, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Dov Feldstern, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, David Kastrup, 2014/01/05
Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Rüdiger Sonderfeld, 2014/01/04