Mercurial at the Kernel Summit

[Matt Mackall]

There's been a pretty enthusiastic response to Mercurial among folks
at the Kernel Summit.

Linus gave a GIT demo on Monday night at the end of which he said he'd
be reevaluating his choice of SCMs after six months (so three months
from now) and that right now the only real alternative was Mercurial.

Tuesday, I managed to give him a fairly short demo between sessions
over my shoulder, which quickly turned into a fairly lively technical
debate about I/O strategies (and a small crowd of onlookers taking
pictures).

Later that evening, I managed to give an ad-hoc but fairly well
received demo/presentation to a larger group. Unfortunately Linus was
gone for the day.

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