Re: Version control tools

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 08/01/14 19:40, Yann wrote:
> With hg, each clone of a repository IS a complete repository itself. So your
> "working copy" is a repository itself (the main folder just contains a hidden
> .hg folder with all the history data). I feel this is an advantage over svn when
> working locally, as your data and the history are at the same place.

Exactly, as with git (which Lilypond uses) and bzr (a very nice tool as well, 
but now sadly somewhat neglected).

If reddit is to be believed, it looks like hg has picked up a bunch of recent 
interest and investment from Facebook in order to optimize things like 
single-file diffs (which in git are no less expensive than whole-repo diffs). 
So for those interested in these tools, it might be worth giving it a try. 
Perhaps the DVCS landscape is not as settled as it has looked recently ...