The Most Emacs Bzr Saga
Summary
The article recounts the Emacs project’s long debate over whether to move from Bazaar (bzr) to Git during 2008-2014, detailing benchmarks, community discussions, and the eventual ELPA/ trunk split and migration. It highlights how performance, maintenance and governance influenced tooling decisions in a major open-source project and what that implies for decision-making on tool choices in ongoing software development.