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GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar

Posted by timothy on from the surely-you-need-not-leave-emacs-to-use-bazaar dept.

kfogel writes "GNU Emacs, one of the oldest continuously developed free software projects around, has switched from CVS to Bazaar. Emacs's first recorded version-control commits date from August, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, it moved to CVS. Sixteen years later, it is switching to Bazaar, its first time in a decentralized version control system. If this pattern holds, GNU Emacs will be in Bazaar for at least thirty-two years ..."

21 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. first first? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd think there'd be an emacs keystroke combo to check for duplicate words in a block of text.

  2. Re:Why 32? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I reckon after two years they'll get bored and switch to keeping commits in directories named gnuemacs.20120415, gnuemacs.working, gnuemacs.old-dontdelete, etc.

  3. ObSimpsons by StarDrifter · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this pattern holds, GNU Emacs will be in Bazaar for at least thirty-two years ...

    Disco Stu: Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... A-y-y-y!

    1. Re:ObSimpsons by jisatsusha · · Score: 3, Funny

      Even better: http://xkcd.com/605/

  4. Re:Why 32? by EvanED · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there a 'scary' mod? I don't see it in my list unfortunately.

  5. News? by TheKidWho · · Score: 2, Funny

    So some young whippersnappers decide to change things around and this is news?

    Get off my lawn!

  6. Cathedral & the Bazaar? Irony? by tchuladdiass · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't Emacs used as an example of a "Cathedral" project in Raymond's paper?

    1. Re:Cathedral & the Bazaar? Irony? by CAIMLAS · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oy, too much more of this, and we'll be setting ourselves up for a paradox.

      You've got GNU/Emacs which is the operating system of its own, but runs on the GNU/Linux operating system as well. And it runs on the free proprietary OS. And Emacs is also in bazaar, even though it's based on the cathedral model. But its owner is very, very fond of bazaar (and bizarre, but that's neither there nor certainly here) development, despite not using it, while also using it.

      Basically, we're looking at Emacs as a self-contradiction as things stand. Too much more of this and it's going to just go *poof*.

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  7. Re:Why 32? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Powers of two are much more beautiful. They are appropriate for a software development project. They will also relatively reduce the need to frequently move to new version control systems, as the interval will dwarf human lifetimes as we know them after doubling only a few more times. An arithmetic progression may seem clever now, but what about 8160 years from now? Will it look so smart then? I think not.

  8. The other kewl thing by kurt555gs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is, the code for EMACS is written in vi.

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    1. Re:The other kewl thing by palegray.net · · Score: 2, Funny

      I though it was done in pico, then shifted to nano, and edited later in TextMate...

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  9. Emacs is in Bazaar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for someone to write a Bazaar server that runs inside Emacs. Will Emacs then update itself and become self-aware? That ought to put the Emacs vs. VI debate to rest once and for all.

  10. Re:Wow, what quality... by kfogel · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a matter of long debate among grammarians, and I take other grammarians's point of view :-).

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  11. Hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It will be too late! --vi

  12. Re:what's new?; bazaar versus git by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There's been some huge improvements in emacs lately, and more to come. They're actually working on fixing one of the oldest problems it has.

    They're going to build in VIM so they finally get a decent text editor!

    *laughs manically and hides*

  13. Re:Why 32? by Architect_sasyr · · Score: 2, Funny

    By that token we have funny-strange and funny-hilarious. Since when did anyone on slashdot fail to be ambiguous?!

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  14. Re:Why 32? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't be silly. This isn't some spartan text editor like vi.

    Future emacs development will be hosted inside emacs, with a version control extension written in emacs lisp.

  15. Re:Why 32? by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    spartan text editor

    THIS! IS! EMACS!

  16. How bazaar! by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

    If this pattern holds, GNU Emacs will be in Bazaar for at least thirty-two years.

    I'm pretty sure Emacs has already been bizarre for at least 32 years.

  17. Re:Why 32? by Ginger+Unicorn · · Score: 2, Funny

    always amusing

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  18. Re:32 years? by ewertz · · Score: 1, Funny
    RCS? Phhhhtt,... kids. I remember when all we had was SCCS, and we liked it!

    Now get off my lawn!