The article recounts a 2008 debate in the emacs-devel mailing list about Emacs's migration from CVS to a modern version control system, comparing Git and Bazaar. It highlights how performance benchmarks showed Git was significantly faster than Bazaar, with Git operations taking fractions of a second compared to Bazaar's tens of seconds. The discussion provides historical insight into a pivotal decision in Emacs development.
Background
In the late 2000s, many open source projects were transitioning from older version control systems like CVS to more modern distributed version control systems. Git, created by Linus Torvalds, was competing with Bazaar, a GNU project backed by Canonical, for adoption by major projects.
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- May 13, 2026 at 09:25 PM
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