From: David Kastrup Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:02:49 GMT Subject: Re: git-scm.com website Message-ID: <87h9tukq0m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <87lhj6kqng.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> 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