From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:22:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Darcs
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In-Reply-To: <46a038f90706241345m4b5ecb80p9f4ec840993023e0@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

>> "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.