Comments on: Re-Examining Darcs & Mercurial

By: Mark Stosberg

Mark Stosberg — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:20:22 +0000

After significant testing with pre-releases of Darcs 2, I’ve found that the “hang” problems are generally solved, as well as problems with “–partial” repositories, and other general improvements like making backup files in more conflict cases, improved SSH support, and generally better feedback when things do go wrong.

Pre-release binaries are available on the wiki for testing.

Also, I think the open bug count, currently about 75, along with the high number of automated tests for project are goods signs over the overall quality that darcs currently has.

By: Jesse Glick

Jesse Glick — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:19:58 +0000

hg backout -m 71

By: hm

hm — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:10:40 +0000

Darcs has a few trick that hg can’t match. Like undoing a specific patch. Say you are at version 100 and want to remove the changes from version 70 to 71. Tricky with hg and many other scm’s. With darcs, you issue two commands: darcs rollback -p “Version70″; darcs revert. Done!

By: Samuel Bronson

Samuel Bronson — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:04:43 +0000

Darcs doesn’t really have very good windows support either… (says the happy darcs user)

By: Benjamin A'Lee

Benjamin A'Lee — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:09:48 +0000

I recently switched from Darcs to Mercurial (for [url=http://ikiwiki.info/]Ikiwiki[/url], which doesn’t yet support Darcs). I’ve found I’m having to spend a lot more time merging when I don’t ‘hg up’ before committing. Darcs handles it without a problem.

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:46:04 +0000

See the story and comments here: [url]http://changelog.complete.org/posts/528-Whose-Distributed-VCS-Is-The-Most-Distributed.html[/url]

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:32:58 +0000

It’s often more convenient to use export/import instead of push/pull. That way, contributors don’t have to have commit access to my repos, and they also don’t have to publish theirs on the web. bundle/unbundle would work too, but isn’t as easy for reading diffs.

By: pachi

pachi — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:53:55 +0000

Any special reason to use export/import instead of the more usual push/pull or even bundle to move changesets from one repo to another one?

By: Jelmer Vernooij

Jelmer Vernooij — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:38:41 +0000

Just out of curiosity, what behaviour of bzr do you find strange?