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Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git
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Rüdiger Sonderfeld |
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Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git |
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Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:12:11 +0100 |
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On Friday 03 January 2014 16:52:32 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> I know a majority opinion lies with git due to various cultural
> factors. I would, however, want to make a case for Mercurial being a
> better choice for a GNU package.
The Emacs community is largely using git. I just checked which methods are
used for `el-get' packages. By far the largest are git based (git, github)
with more than 61%. The next largest is http (http, http-tar) with ~18%.
Mercurial is used for less than 2% of the packages.
Many major Emacs packages already use git: Org, Gnus, AUCTeX, ESS, GNU ELPA,
...
As you said the main arguments are social and not technical. And the
community is the major social asset of any free software project. Therefore
it seems like a bad idea to switch to anything but git. I think Stefan
already made it clear that it's either git or bzr.
Regards
Rüdiger
Raw data from el-get (2c93601b3c907)
((fossil . 1)
(go . 6)
(no-op . 2)
(cvs . 4)
(git-svn . 2)
(builtin . 11)
(ftp . 5)
(emacsmirror . 9)
(bzr . 10)
("github" . 2)
(svn . 11)
(hg . 17)
(elpa . 24)
(http . 145)
(emacswiki . 89)
(git . 55)
(http-tar . 20)
(github . 518))
I didn't count git-svn, emacsmirror for git. And didn't check the vcs used by
packages managed through elpa, go, or other methods. So 62% is a rather low
estimate.
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, (continued)
- 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, 2014/01/05
- 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 <=
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Sebastian Wiesner, 2014/01/04
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/04
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, David Kastrup, 2014/01/04
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Alan Mackenzie, 2014/01/04
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2014/01/04
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/04
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/05
- Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git, Óscar Fuentes, 2014/01/05