[Python-Dev] Source control tools (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jun 12 23:46:25 CEST 2006

On 6/12/06, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

[*] Short? This whole mail was short! I can talk for hours about the benefit of proper branches and what kind of stuff is easier, better and more efficient with them. I can draw huge ASCII diagrams explaining the fundamental difference between CVS/SVN, BitKeeper/Arch/Darcs/Bazaar-NG/Mercurial and Monotone (yes, that's three groups), and I have powerpoint(!) sheets I used to give a presentation about how and why BitKeeper works at work. It's probably a bit off-topic here, though, so don't tempt me ;P

Will you be at EuroPython? This might be a good OpenSpace topic if you haven't already secured your speaking slot. It so happens that I saw a talk about Mercurial at last week's baypiggies meeting and the author claimed that it's as fast as Git.

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