From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: git-scm.com website Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:02:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87h9tukq0m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87y4n6kvdu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87lhj6kqng.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Shawn Pearce , Michael J Gruber , Christian Couder , Junio C Hamano , git To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 09 19:03:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YV215-00038t-Jo for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:02:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753604AbbCISCy (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:02:54 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50426 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751400AbbCISCv (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2015 14:02:51 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49464 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YV20w-0004Jd-Bi; Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:02:50 -0400 Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DAC57E062D; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 19:02:49 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87lhj6kqng.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:49:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > Scott Chacon writes: > >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Personally, I consider the recent migration of the Emacs repository to >>> Git a bigger endorsement but then that's me. >> >> I would love to have Emacs on that page, actually. If you guys want me >> to add that, I'm happy to. I didn't know they moved over, I thought >> they were still a bzr shop. > > I don't know who "you guys" is, but it would be my guess that > Stallman/FSF would not be enthused to see the Emacs logo added to that > particular list. > > Emacs used Bzr particularly to promote an alternative to Git more open > to the free software philosophy promoted by the FSF. Once Bzr > development became non-responsive and Canonical turned it more into a > Canonical-owned rather than a community project, it became sort of > pointless to stick with a technically less popular choice. > > So Emacs fairly recently switched to Git. I might add that the abysmal performance of git-blame on Emacs' src/xdisp.c was given as one fairly important argument against switching to Git, and in consequence I promised to take a look at it. Git runs about a factor of 4 faster on src/xdisp.c now, but I can safely say that I consider letting myself get involved here a rather expensive mistake. Live and learn. -- David Kastrup