Your favorite quote about Mercurial for the new website

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009 03:31:36 schrieb David Soria Parra:
> > Also, the body text is too vague. By reading the home page, it should be
> > clear what kind of things Mercurial allows to do: track history of
> > modifications, publish source code and documents, propose and review
> > changes, split and merge branches of development, etc. Otherwise it's
> > just marketing fluff.
>
> Would you mind sending a patch about the exact changes you propose. That
> would be great. The page is in extremly early stage and every good
> change is appreciated.

Please mind that the text changed: 

"Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It 
efficiently handles projects of any size while offering an easy and intuitive 
interface."


How about adding to the benefit section a more explicit entry about what you 
can do with it? 

You're right, that the site lacks information for people who don't know DVCS 
(another good catch. Many thanks!)


I tried adding it with the following: 

How you can benefit from Mercurial

	It is fast and powerful
Mercurial offers you the power and speed to efficiently handle projects of any 
size and kind. Every clone contains the whole project history, so committing, 
branching, tagging and merging are local operations which makes them fast and 
convenient. You can use a multitude of workflows and easily enhance its 
functionality with extensions.

	It is easy to learn
You can follow our simple guide to learn how to revision your documents with 
Mercurial, or just use the quick start to get going instantly. If you already 
know Subversion, please see "Mercurial for svn users".

	And it just works
Mercurial strives to deliver on each of its promises. Most tasks simply work 
on the first try and without requiring arcane knowledge.


(should 
"so committing, branching, tagging and merging are local operations" 
be rather 
"so committing, branching, tagging and merging and most other operations are 
local"
to avoid people thinking that these four are the only local ones?)

Best wishes, 
Arne
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