From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus•com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu•org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit•edu>, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Comments on "Understanding Version Control" by Eric S. Raymond
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:34:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090205093415.GC20844@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo63jpo21o.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader <miles@gnu•org>:
> 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.
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.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 9:35 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
2009-02-05 9:34 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
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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