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Notably Mercurial and Fossil are also distributed; they differ a bit in how complex they are, what they allow you to do, which tools are bundled in, etc, but ul
by eindiran 6y ago
Notably Mercurial and Fossil are also distributed; they differ a bit in how complex they are, what they allow you to do, which tools are bundled in, etc, but ultimately any of the DVCSes is going to be lightyears ahead of the pre-Git (pre-Mercurial? I'm not sure which came first) client-server VCSes.
Regarding your point about git being unable to be further simplified, I think Mercurial demonstrates that that isn't true; it sacrifices some coverage of the edge cases to get a significantly simpler interface.
- jjav 6y ago> lightyears ahead of the pre-Git (pre-Mercurial? I'm not sure which came first) client-server VCSes git and mercurial both came out at the same time, April 2005. But neither was the first distributed scs by a very long shot. There was of course bitkeeper (which motivated git) and Sun's teamware was there all of the 90s. Surely several others.
- fanf2 6y agoThere was GNU arch / tla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_arch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_arch and monotone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)