VCS comparisons [LWN.net]

VCS comparisons

Posted Mar 26, 2008 0:06 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)
In reply to: Mercurial 1.0 released by rpayne
Parent article: Mercurial 1.0 released

Perhaps someone would take on the task of attempting to write an objective, in-depth comparison of some of the distributed VCSs

Could this be the sort of thing you're looking for?

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VCS comparisons

Posted Mar 26, 2008 2:07 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

HTML version here: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/version-control/version-control.html

VCS comparisons

Posted Mar 27, 2008 19:03 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111) [Link]

Unfortunately, it doesn't actually review either git or mercurial, although it does mention them favourably. I'd guess it's a work in progress, and ESR has been busy with other things lately.