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Re: Which VCS besides git?

From
Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Date
Mar 2, 2010, 16:38 UTC
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<1267547722-sup-9250@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>
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<201003021622.22196.karlis.repsons@gmail.com>
Excerpts from Kārlis Repsons's message of Tue Mar 02 11:22:16 -0500 2010:
> On top of what you wrote already, I'd like to know which VCS have
> immutable history, which can all be stored (say, gradually
> accumulated) on clientside? I hope, that explained the idea...

Monotone does have immutable history (unless you munge the db by hand) and is distributed (full history in each repo, good merging, etc).

I enjoyed mtn for a few years before getting hooked on git. I've found git much more pleasurable (and powerful) to use though.

HTH. -Ben

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  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 2, 2010
  3. Kārlis RepsonsMar 2, 2010
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  5. Jakub NarebskiMar 2, 2010
  6. Kārlis RepsonsMar 2, 2010
  7. Ben WaltonMar 2, 2010
  8. Jakub NarebskiMar 3, 2010
  9. Felipe ContrerasMar 3, 2010
  10. Bruce StephensMar 3, 2010
  11. Felipe ContrerasMar 3, 2010
  12. Ben WaltonMar 3, 2010
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