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

[Stefan Monnier]

> small consideration to them.  They probably won't change again until
> that future generation of VCSes has as great advantage over Mercurial
> as Mercurial (and other DVCSes) had over CVS 5 years ago.  (Really
> good subtree/submodule support, or really good bidirectional merge
> support would probably do it.)

While I have used a various VCS (including the obscure MetaCVS, which
I used enough to write vc-mcvs.el), your description of Python
developers sounds very applicable to me w.r.t to Emacs's trunk.
Just like I didn't fight Richard's choice of Bazaar, I don't care very
much whether we keep using Bazaar or we change to Git, Monotone, Darcs,
Mercurial, OpenCM, Fossil, younameit.

> To summarize, 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.

The only thing I care for now is to move away from Bazaar for the `elpa'
branch because Bazaar can't handle it properly.


        Stefan