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On 18/09/2010 01:13, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> wrote:
> 
>> ... Mercurial being the distributed version control that it is
>> allows you to clone, make the changes you need to the clone test it
>> thoroughly and then either push or pull them to the main tree ...
> 
> At the risk of starting the VCS variant of the vi vs emacs wars :)
> why Mercurial (rather than, say, GIT or SVK)?
> 
> And no, I have nothing against Mercurial.  I don't know _any_
> distributed VCS well enough to have an opinion of which would
> be best suited.

There is great documentation and re-education material
(for SVN users) out there for Mercurial.

But this is not going to happen any way. The ports are still stuck
with _CVS_.

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