Re: version control system

[Bruno Haible]

> > Do you have a comparison of git with mercurial, monotone, bzr?

Reading the wikipedia articles on each of them
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_(software)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(vcs)

it convinced me of two major advantages of git:
  - speed,
  - community support: 3 web interfaces, several GUIs.

> Here's a well-written piece from someone else who's switched to git:
> 
>   http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html

... which adds a third major advantage:
  - robustness of the repository structure.

> >   - automatic daily backup,
> 
> Not relevant.
> With git or hg, anyone who pulls gets the entire repository.

Hmm, but if the central repository got lost, and was restored through - say -
my copy, everyone would see my temporary branches, and see the patches in the
order in which I pulled them and merged them with my patches, which is not
the original order. No?

Bruno