From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69358 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus VCS issues Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:31:11 +0100 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <87ocko73r4.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> References: <1234049754.2390.1299107629@webmail.messagingengine.com> <86d4drnzf1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fxin9qgm.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <867i1otupq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874owos9il.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <867i1kicou.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hxjzm2u.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aawse3w6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyur451i.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877hrlwvwk.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87pr54akb4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrzc7721.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <873a20o131.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264030359 4951 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2010 23:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:32:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17762@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 21 00:32:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXk2I-0000bi-Jy for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:32:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NXk2F-0001uk-FU; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:32:27 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NXk2C-0001u1-Ry for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:32:24 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NXk2A-0004np-VD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:32:24 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NXk22-0003Y6-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:32:14 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NXk1z-0000UX-Ms for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:32:11 +0100 Original-Received: from 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.24.143]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:32:11 +0100 Original-Received: from asjo by 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:32:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2505ds5-by.0.fullrate.dk X-Face: )qY&CseJ?.:=8F#^~GcSA?F=9eu'{KAFfL1C3/A&:nE?PW\i65"ba0NS)97,Q(^@xk}n4Ou rPuR#V8I(J_@~H($[ym:`K_+]*kjvW>xH5jbgLBVFGXY:(#4P>zVBklLbdL&XxL\M)%T}3S/IS9lMJ ^St'=VZBR Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69358 Archived-At: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:36:50 +0100, Reiner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20 2010, Adam Sjøgren wrote: >> What are the pros of Bazaar compared to Git? > Emacs uses Bazaar (mainly because it is a GNU project, see the long > discussions in the emacs-devel archive) and we should use the same VC > system as Emacs to make synching easier and so that Gnus developers > don't need to learn another VC system (most active Gnus developers are > also Emacs developers). > (I didn't use neither Bazaar not Git yet.) (I like Git, and haven't tried Bazaar (except a light brush with the predecessor tla a long time ago), that was why I asked). For what it is worth, XEmacs uses Mercurial these days. On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:17:37 +0100, Andreas wrote: > Tell me when you find one :-) What I extract from your answers is something like "It's not sufficiently worse than Git to not choose it for compability reasons". Makes sense, I guess. As I said, I was just curious and certainly not trying to light a flame. The corporate sponsorship background of Bazaar might be worrying, but it is probably "big" enough that it doesn't matter. Thanks, Adam -- "But we are stubborn." Adam Sjøgren asjo@koldfront.dk