For what is worth, the "Before git and mercurial, merging was a nightmare in most monolithic source control systems" seems like a heavy misconception for me. Ho

For what is worth, the "Before git and mercurial, merging was a nightmare in most monolithic source control systems" seems like a heavy misconception for me. How many people actually tried? The pypy project was using heavy branching and merging on svn and it worked just fine. The only "drawback" was that everyone had to have commit rights to the main repo. I say "drawback" because liberal policies to giving commit rights never ended up badly. Actually newcomers with commit rights are always more careful than old contributors.