[darcs-users] Re: What's better, Darcs or Mercurial?

[Will]

Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl> writes:

> Ruini Xue wrote:
>> 
>> I found distributed VCS is what I want, however there are so many
>> of them. After some basic reading, I want to choose between darcs
>> and mercurial.  But I can no decide which is better, or what's
>> their main differences and how about their future development?
>> 

I prefer to use darcs for code because it automatically merges any
non-conflicting changes when pulling patches from different
repositories.  This makes it very easy and natural to create a branch
for changes and then integrate them into other branches with minimal
difficulty.

Mercurial does not do automatic merging, so non-conflicting changes to
the same file require manual review.  However mercurial is much faster
with large repositories and supports filesystem links even on Windows,
so I use it for versioning large server configurations with many
binary files.

Regards,
Will