> How does this compare to git? Apart from the other answers that go into theories of patches vs. commits, I always found Darcs much more intuitive to actually

> How does this compare to git? Apart from the other answers that go into theories of patches vs. commits, I always found Darcs much more intuitive to actually use than Git. It has fewer commands that do more intuitive stuff. To record a patch, you do "record" instead of separate "add" and "commit" steps. To revert some changes you have not recorded and that you want to get rid of, you do "revert" instead of "checkout -- filename". The "diff" command works more intuitively than git's "diff", which you sometimes have to use as "diff --cached" due to its staging model. Another thing is that every branch is a separate copy of the entire source tree in your file system. A drawback is that this can be viewed as wasteful, but the advantage is that it's much much easier to work in parallel branches at the same time since changing the branch is just doing "cd" instead of some boring dance of "stash" and "checkout". You also don't get problems due to files intended for one branch still lying around after a "checkout" to switch to another branch. (I'm assuming that Pijul preserves all or at least most of these properties of Darcs. The docs aren't very exhaustive.)