Re: Darcs

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:45:57AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

OTOH, and from the POV of someone closely following the SCM tools in
the last few years (and using almost all of them), darcs was the first
usable DSCM in the camp. I am not sure how much of its commandline
user interface was borrowed from BK or elsewhere, but darcs was
_easy_, where Arch was extremely hard to use.

The darcs commandset (init, push, pull) is what git, hg and bzr have
today in common. 

And the closer we get to Darcs UI the happier I feel ;-)

Darcs was first announced in April 2003 [1].

Linus first started using BK to manage the Linux source tree in 2002;
I first started using Bitkeeper to manage e2fsprogs back in 2001; and
BK was first available in late 1998.

So to give credit where credit is due, the whole "$foo init", "$foo
commit", "$foo push", "$foo pull" DSCM UI was first pioneered by Larry
McVoy and BitKeeper, not Darcs.

						- Ted

[1]  http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2003-April/004139.html