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Darcs is not "another", it is "the first distributed" version control system that gained some traction in open source projects. Before git usage exploded, darcs

Darcs is not "another", it is "the first distributed" version control system that gained some traction in open source projects. Before git usage exploded, darcs was almost exclusively used by haskel and lisp libraries. What killed darcs, besides performance issues with darcs 1, was "one repo one branch" mode, and tedious way of maintaining long lived forks, which wasn't that convenient as what git provides. However, I'm glad that Darcs is still actively developed and used, since it has very nice theory and model behind it, and it still has some very useful concept which are quite unique for it.

decode 14y ago
> Darcs is not "another", it is "the first distributed" version control system that gained some traction in open source projects. Wasn't BitKeeper in use by the Linux kernel for several years before Darcs came out?
- loup-vaillant 14y ago
  > "that gained some traction in open source projects." Therefore, proprietary tools don't count.
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- smacktoward 14y ago
  It was, but not for "several years." Linus started using BitKeeper on the kernel in 2002 (source: http://lwn.net/Articles/130746/ http://lwn.net/Articles/130746/). The first release of Darcs was in March 2003 (source: http://darcs.net/NEWS http://darcs.net/NEWS).