> And "anti-GNU people" is just a lame insult. My point was that in the context of Emacs, arguably the GNUest of the GNU, being anti-GNU is nothing to scoff at

> And "anti-GNU people" is just a lame insult. My point was that in the context of Emacs, arguably the GNUest of the GNU, being anti-GNU is nothing to scoff at. Indeed, bzr was chosen for a long time because it was an official GNU project and was usable enough. The hg devs went through great pains to change the license from GPLv2 to GPLv2-or-later. Lead dev Matt Mackall calls himself a free software advocate (not open source) is good friends with the likes of Bradley Kuhn and Eben Moglen of Software Freedom Conservancy and the Software Freedom Law Center respectively, and makes a point about defending Mercurial's copyleft. Ideology being important for GNU Emacs, it also seemed important to me to argue in favour of Mercurial on these grounds. That Mercurial also happens to be fast, featureful, innovative, and generally kickass is a nice cherry on top. Its only significant drawback is that it's not as popular as git.