[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

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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