Revision Control

[Scott David Daniels]

Dikkie Dik wrote:
> Funny how everybody is speaking about the ease of merging. It is the
> very least feature I have ever needed from source code control....

Ah yes, but with a distributed VCS, merging becomes _much_ more common.
The model is developers pull, develop (checking in frequently), and
merge back.  Most checkins to the central repository _are_ merges.
That is why everyone talks about merge speed.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org