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Re: Darcs

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 24, 2007, 22:22 UTC
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"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
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>> "Academic".
>
> 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.

I second this. Before I started contributing to git in its early weeks, I staged my own changes to my day-job project in darcs to trickle them in to the company's central repository (I was sufficiently faster than other members of the project and I had to pace myself).

It would have been much more difficult for me to grasp the basic concepts of how "distributed development" process works, if I did not have an exposure to Darcs before I started, especially because I never used BK.

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  1. Bu BacooJun 24, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2007
  3. Martin LanghoffJun 24, 2007
  4. Jan HudecJun 24, 2007
  5. Theodore TsoJun 24, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2007
  8. Josh TriplettJun 28, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 28, 2007
  10. Bu BacooJun 29, 2007
  11. Florian WeimerJun 25, 2007
  12. Bu BacooJun 25, 2007
  13. Dan ChokolaJun 24, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsJun 25, 2007
  15. Dan ChokolaJun 25, 2007
  16. Martin LanghoffJun 27, 2007

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