darcs – Tarik Billa

Why darcs instead of git? [closed]

September 25, 2023 by Tarik

Darcs manages collections of patches instead of chronological history. More about this is on the darcs wiki page documenting differences with Git. This difference is illustrated by a darcs ability to pull patches interactively, out of order. For example, you could pull all patches with a commit title that matched a ticket number from “development” … Read more

What version-control system is most trivial to set up and use for toy projects?

March 1, 2023 by Tarik

I would say something like Git might fit the bill: As it’s a distributed system, you don’t need to have a central repository, the repos exist with the source directory It is easy to create patch files that can be mailed and applied. Although it might seem that git is difficult to use, the basic … Read more