Mercurial Vs. Monotone & Darcs

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-07-07 14:39, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail <francisco.diaztrepat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys, I am trying to learn / pick one version control system
> to use in the company that I work for, where they currently use
> svn. And for my personal projects as well.  I saw the conference
> video on google on mercurial and I pretty much like it right
> away. But some guy I respect a bit told me take a look at monotone
> and darcs as well.
>
> If anyone is familiar with this systems could you give me some
> comments on them vs. mercurial.
>
> Mercurial
> Monotone
> Darcs

If you are interested in a comparison of SCM systems, I think it may
help a bit to start with the following reading material:

    http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html

Two more useful documents, with interesting ideas about SCM systems,
and a lot of links/references to even more material, are:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
    http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html

It is nearly impossible to write in a single email reply all the
interesting bits about all the SCM systems out there, so feel free to
read through the links above, and their second-level links, and the
third level, and so on.

Then experiment with the three systems you want to familiarize
yourself with.  Try keeping some of your files in an Hg workspace.
Try committing, sharing and moving stuff around a Monotone repository.
Play around with Darcs a bit.

There's no substitute for really _doing_ something, when it comes to
getting experience with SCM systems.