Re: VCS comparison table

> Example time!
> 
> There's a plugin for Bzr which adds support for Cygwin-compatible 
> symlink support on Windows. (IIRC, this involves monkey-patching some of 
> the Python standard library bits).
> 
> Now, this is something which is *proposed* as a feature to be merged 
> into upstream bzr, and it may happen at some point. That said, when I 
> have a Windows-using coworker who wants to check out a repository that 
> has symlinks in it (with his win32-native, no-cygwin-required bzr 
> upstream binary), I don't need to tell him to go download and build bzr 
> from a third party; instead, I just need to tell him to run a single 
> command to check out the plugin in question into the bzr plugins folder.
> 
>  From an end-user convenience perspective, it's a pretty significant win.