[darcs-users] Re: current status of darcs

[Tassilo Horn]

William Morgan <wmorgan-darcs at masanjin.net> writes:

Hi William,

> 1. The first question on the FAQ mentions certain types of conflicts can
>    cause darcs to hang. It then points to a bugreport that is a year
>    old. Is this still an issue? Is it a common occurrence? In such a
>    situation, is it easy to solve, or difficult?

Some days ago I've read an Blog article which compares Darcs, Mercurial,
git and Bazaar-ng [1]. Beside the performance of the initial import
darcs compares quite good, but the article concludes with the sentence

  "Darcs still reportedly has a deep, serious bug. Don't use it (though
  it is nice)."

Is the above bug meant? Is it really that serious? Dunno, at least I can
say that I use darcs for all my own projects and for other free-software
projects I'm working on, e.g. EMMS, and it definitely rocks.

> Alternatively, if there's another VCS I should be considering
> (commercial or not), I'd be interested.

Well, the four mentioned in the blog seem to be all quite good. And I've
heard that Monotone has to be nice. The blog includes a link to a
comparison table [2] which you might find useful for further
investigations on this topic.

Regards,
Tassilo

Footnotes: 
[1] http://xrl.us/u7gg
[2] http://zooko.com/revision_control_quick_ref.html
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