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

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:

> Mercurial is used for Python itself (and quite a few other large projects),
> so its longevity is not really a very difficult question.  It will be here
> for at least as long as Python, which Bazaar also uses.

The reason (personally) why I do not want Mercurial to become the Emacs VCS is
for the same reason I don't like bzr: Because it's not used by a *single*
project whose VCS I track or contribute to.  I don't know the UI, and have
never had any reason to know the UI.  I'm not even sure I have Mercurial
installed!

Meanwhile, the number of Git repositories on my machine today: 457.

I think it's pretty clear that Git has emerged as the "winning" technology, in
terms of mind-share, adoption, excitement, etc.  I run into new Git projects
constantly.  Several prominent Haskell projects (such as bytestring) just
switched from Darcs to Git in order to attract contributors.  Whereas I
encounter Mercurial and Bazaar, well, never.  Darcs a few times, due to the
Haskell community, but only ever there.

John