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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 ..."

2 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. Why 32? by hezekiah957 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    24 is plausible, too; an arithmetic not geometric progression.

  2. Re:first first? by melikamp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (defun search-dupe-words ()
    "Search for word dupes"
    (interactive)
    (search-forward-regexp "[^a-z]\\([a-z]+\\) \\1[^a-z]"))

    (global-set-key (kbd "<f7>") 'search-dupe-words)