From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: Comments on "Understanding Version Control" by Eric S. Raymond Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:01:07 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200902021948.54700.jnareb@gmail.com> <20090202202424.GG14762@mit.edu> <200902040304.05028.jnareb@gmail.com> <20090204235436.GA8945@mit.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org, "Eric S. Raymond" To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 05 07:03:30 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 1LUxKd-0008IP-97 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:03:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753799AbZBEGBm (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:01:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753781AbZBEGBl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:01:41 -0500 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:38431 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753591AbZBEGBk (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:01:40 -0500 Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n1560ogx021201; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:01:07 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:01:07 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.240] [10.114.112.240]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:01:07 +0900 Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 7398A52E27C; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:01:07 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20090204235436.GA8945@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:54:36 -0500") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -Miles -- Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.