http://blog.moertel.com/articles/tag/mercurial?tag=mercurial en-us 40 Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like <p>On the Darcs Users mailing list, I ran across an interesting thread: <a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/11201">practical differences between darcs&#8217; patch model and git/mercurial&#8217;s?</a></p> <p>Among the interesting points of discussion:</p> <ul> <li>Do the mechanics that give rise to Darcs&#8217;s strong cherry-picking abilities also make it susceptible to naughty time-complexity behavior?</li> <li>When you merge non-conflicting changes in Git or Mercurial, you must record a merge patch, which binds the two in the development timeline, but in Darcs the respective patches are free to commute. Which behavior is better for real-world development?</li> </ul> <p>If you&#8217;re interested in distributed source-code management, it&#8217;s an interesting thread to follow.</p> Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:26:00 -0400 urn:uuid:9bd93d19-ad1f-4462-9210-11df880ad696 Tom Moertel http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2007/10/25/practical-differences-between-darcs-and-git-mercurial programming vcs darcs mercurial git patches http://blog.moertel.com/articles/trackback/606