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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today
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OutBackDingo wrote:
>> I'm having to use mercurial.
>> I'm not really enjoying it.
>> works ok for small projects. BSD is a bit big for it.
>> doe work foe offline editing, but loses all your BSD history.
>>
>> probably SVK is the way to go from what I hear.
> 
> Im using mercurial on full FreeBSD trees, curiosity makes me ask where
> do you the deficiency?
> 
> Ive had no issues patching, branching, merging, transplanting, tracking
> vendor updates. The only issue i really had was a import of the full cvs
> tree
> 

so if I ask you to show me version  1.3 of ng_base.c and compare it
to  version 1.5, how do you do that?