[Python-Dev] Mercurial?

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Apr 6 15:15:09 CEST 2009


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:

> My guess was that Bazaar anchored the "centralised" end of the DVCS
> scale by letting users avoid caring about the underlying acyclic
> graph
[…]

> That makes Bazaar easy to pitch conceptually to someone like me
> ("you can use it just like you use SVN, only with much better
> merging and offline support")
[…]

> Mercurial appears to best allow the sales pitch to be tailored to
> the target audience (in this case, a group including a lot of people
> with a background predominantly involving centralised version
> control tools).

I don't follow. Wouldn't your preceding points above instead make
*Bazaar* the one best suited for a group including a lot of people
with a background predominantly involving centralised version control
tools?

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