Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git

[David Kastrup]

Sebastian Wiesner <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 04.01.2014 17:41 schrieb "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <address@hidden>:
>>
>> On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 17:08 +0100, Sebastian Wiesner wrote:
>>
>> > For reference, a little grepping in the recipes of MELPA
>> > (http://melpa.milkbox.net/) reveals a similar bias towards Git:
>> >
>> > $ grep ':fetcher hg' * | wc -l
>> > 31
>> > $ grep ':fetcher git' * | grep -v github | wc -l
>> > 29
>> > $ grep ':fetcher github' * | wc -l
>> > 1186
>>
>> This looks like a bias towards github, not git. And this is a problem,
>> not something to be praised.
>
> Oh dear.  I didn't praise anything.  I simply provided data about the
> popularity of Git and Mercurial within the community of  independent
> Emacs developers, which indicates that Git is by far the most popular
> DVCS among these developers.  That's a fact, like it or not.
>
> I didn't make any judgement as to whether this is good or bad, or even
> relevant at all. Do whatever you want with it.

Actually, I agree with Jordi that the bias towards Github, a rather
proprietary service, is a problem.  We are not going to solve that
problem by leaving Git alone.

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David Kastrup