[Haskell-cafe] a newbies confusion with repositories - darcs or
git  Eric Y. Kow kowey at darcs.net Sun Mar 1 05:40:46 EST 2009
Hi Günther,  > But since I have the ambition to become a real
haskeller I was gonna > make myself acquainted with darcs.
Should I skip that and head straight > for git?  My extremely
biased opinion is that you skip git and go straight for darcs
;-)  Why I love darcs Git is a fine revision control system; I
like it and I intend to learn more about it.  On the other hand,
darcs does some unique, which makes it similar to Haskell (vs.
other programming languages) in way, that one often has a hard
time explaining to folks what it is that makes it so special
(the good news is that the Haskell community is getting better
and better at this! and hope that the same will happen for
darcs).  So let's give this a shot.  Why darcs?  In my opinion,
the number one killer feature of darcs is that it knows how to
merge changes without doing *any* guessing.  It doesn't say
"well, I have this patch t