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Re: bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move


From: Bozhidar Batsov
Subject: Re: bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:28:46 +0200

I agree with most of the points you make and I’d love for Emacs to adopt git, but judging from the last discussion on the topic a few months ago (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-03/msg00776.html), I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon.

Btw, Richard said then he wanted to give bzr’s maintainer a reasonable amount of time to fix some bugs (or so I recall). If this hasn’t happened - there’s one more argument in favour of using git. Relying on a poorly maintained project is generally worse than relying on a unpopular project.

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Bozhidar

On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Bozhidar Batsov wrote:

On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
() address@hidden (Eric S. Raymond)
() Thu, 2 Jan 2014 04:53:47 -0500 (EST)

Sticking to a moribund version-control system will compound and
exacerbate the project's difficulty in attracting new talent.

It impedes people stuck on old (low spec) computers, too. For example,
in my adventures w/ git-bzr, i have managed to do the initial clone, but
512M RAM is not enough to achieve the tantalizingly compact footprint
that "git gc --aggressive" purports. I'm a stubborn fool and will find
a way eventually (suggestions from git-bzr / git experts welcome!), but
it's an unqualified slog that i imagine is just not worth the trouble
for others in similar straits.
I’m using git-bzr myself and one of my computers overheats while doing the initial clone from bzr :-) 

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