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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 ..."

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  1. 32 years? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or less if the developers accept that Bazaar sucks compared to git and switch earlier.

  2. EMACS discovers "distributed development" by m6ack · · Score: 0, Troll

    [Almost-a-troll]... but chooses an in-grown (GNU) tool instead of the best of breed -- i.e. git? Yeah... same-old, same-old RMS. Funny that BZR is now sponsored by Canonical...[/Almost-a-troll]