Miles Bader <miles@xxxxxxx>: > Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> 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> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
