From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Comments on "Understanding Version Control" by Eric S. Raymond Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:34:15 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20090205093415.GC20844@thyrsus.com> References: <200902021948.54700.jnareb@gmail.com> <20090202202424.GG14762@mit.edu> <200902040304.05028.jnareb@gmail.com> <20090204235436.GA8945@mit.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Tso , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Miles Bader X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 05 10:35:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LV0eM-0001gc-ID for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:35:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756290AbZBEJee (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:34:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756198AbZBEJec (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:34:32 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:33695 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755005AbZBEJeb (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:34:31 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 0F1AB830011; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:34:15 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Miles Bader : > Theodore Tso writes: > > I suspect Eric will disagree with me, but regardless of how he > > completes his paper, it will almost certainly end up taking sides one > > way or another on this controversy, at which point one side or the > > other of this particular disagreement will argue that Eric is really > > writing an advocacy paper pushing Bzr, Mercurial, or Git (depending on > > how he comes out on this issue). > > That was pretty clear from his comments on the emacs-devel mailing list > (2008-05 roughly). > > He spent a lot of time trying to sound impartial (and that he was "still > doing research"), but strongly gave the impression that he had already > made up his mind. At the time, I leaned slightly towards Mercurial, but my reasons had nothing to do with the cluster of issues Ted is pointing at; rather, I liked hg for its interface simplicity. I remain agnostic about the deep issues around renaming and user intentions - in part because I'm by no means sure I completely understand them yet. -- Eric S. Raymond