From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Subject: Re: Comments on "Understanding Version Control" by Eric S. Raymond
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:01:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo63jpo21o.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090204235436.GA8945@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:54:36 -0500")
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 6:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 18:48 Comments on "Understanding Version Control" by Eric S. Raymond Jakub Narebski
2009-02-02 20:24 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-02 20:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2009-02-03 20:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-02-04 2:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-02-04 23:54 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-05 0:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05 2:43 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-05 6:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05 13:28 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-05 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-05 0:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-02-05 0:49 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-05 6:01 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-02-05 9:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2009-02-05 11:23 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-02-05 13:16 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-05 17:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-02-05 21:45 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-04 22:14 ` Tests for " Jakub Narebski
2009-02-10 1:20 ` Comments on " Jakub Narebski
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