[Kolab-devel] Mercurial Distributed SCM (was: Re: RFC: move horde related CVS directories)

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl> [20070628 09:35]:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:24:02AM +0200, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> > [1] Mercurial 0.9.4 was released this week, and the demo repository at
> >     http://hg.intevation.org/tmp/kolab-server/ is still available :)
> 
> What does mercurial offer that e.g. svn does not offer?  Just interesting
> to know the differences.

The sections "Why choose Mercurial?" and "Mercurial compared with
other tools" (http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch1.html#x5-170001.5)
from the book "Distributed revision control with Mercurial" should
give you some quick answers.

A quick overview of features:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MajorFeatures

Further information is available on the homepage:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/

Thomas

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