Re: Darcs

"Martin Langhoff" [off-list ref] writes:

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"Academic".

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.

I second this.  Before I started contributing to git in its
early weeks, I staged my own changes to my day-job project in
darcs to trickle them in to the company's central repository (I
was sufficiently faster than other members of the project and I
had to pace myself). 

It would have been much more difficult for me to grasp the basic
concepts of how "distributed development" process works, if I
did not have an exposure to Darcs before I started, especially
because I never used BK.