Re: Darcs

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Jun 24, 2007, 21:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20070624215216.GA3910@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90706241345m4b5ecb80p9f4ec840993023e0@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:45:57AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> OTOH, and from the POV of someone closely following the SCM tools in
> the last few years (and using almost all of them), darcs was the first
> usable DSCM in the camp. I am not sure how much of its commandline
> user interface was borrowed from BK or elsewhere, but darcs was
> _easy_, where Arch was extremely hard to use.

> The darcs commandset (init, push, pull) is what git, hg and bzr have
> today in common.

> And the closer we get to Darcs UI the happier I feel ;-)

Darcs was first announced in April 2003 [1].

Linus first started using BK to manage the Linux source tree in 2002; I first started using Bitkeeper to manage e2fsprogs back in 2001; and BK was first available in late 1998.

So to give credit where credit is due, the whole "$foo init", "$foo commit", "$foo push", "$foo pull" DSCM UI was first pioneered by Larry McVoy and BitKeeper, not Darcs.

						- Ted

[1]  http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2003-April/004139.html