[Psi-devel] Darcs

[Trejkaz]

Quoting Hal Rottenberg <halr9000 at gmail.com>:
>> What's so great about darcs anyway, compared to, say, Subversion ?
>
> Speaking as the obvious non-dev here, let me say that I found the
> darcs cmd-line client easier to use than the svn cmd-line client.  The
> TortiseSVN client kicks ass if you want a GUI, but 'darcs get' was a
> one step thing, hardly worth finding and installing a GUI, really.
> And the experience was the same on Windows and Linux.

Here's a fair comparison for the sort of commands which non-developers would
use:

Subversion:    svn   co  URL directory
Darcs:         darcs get URL directory

And when it's time to update...

Subversion:    svn update
Darcs:         darcs pull

I don't instantly see how Darcs is any simpler, given that it requires 
about the
same amount of typing and simply has different terminology.  Its benefits are
clearly in other areas, like distributed repositories and patch management.

TX


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