Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:50:29 +0900
> Cc: Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden>, Michael Welsh Duggan <address@hidden>,
>       Leo Liu <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Emacs developers as a group are pretty sensitive to improvements in
> the VCS, and therefore it would be "nice" if they could have the
> leading VCS most of the time.
> 
> It is my opinion that the architecture of git (including the plethora
> of plumbing commands that people seem to love to hate) makes it the
> odds-on favorite for the role of "leading VCS", more than Mercurial.

Then why did XEmacs choose Mercurial, and did not switch even now?