Last I heard [1], bzr was planning not to do patch commutation. Therefore, it will not do most of darcs's unique features.
On the other hand, the new merge algorithm being cooked up by Bram Cohen (Codeville), Ross Cohen (Codeville), and Nathaniel Smith (Monotone) might be able to do most of darcs's unique features while avoiding the tangly merge conflict problems. We'll see. On the gripping hand, speculation about the future doesn't butter parsnips. Darcs works very well for some kinds of tasks today, and Codeville and Monotone may also work well -- I haven't personally tried them yet. In my somewhat well-informed opinion, any of these projects could turn out to be excellent tools in six or twelve months: darcs (with efficient-merge-conflict-magic), Codeville or Monotone (with their new merge algorithm), Bazaar-NG a.k.a. bzr (even if it doesn't have a good merge algorithm, but it turns out that a tool without a good merge algorithm is still nicely useful, or else if bzr adopts a good merge algorithm). Same with many contenders such as git, mercurial, vesta, etc. etc. I've really enjoyed observing these developments, as it is a rare case of Free Software innovating instead of copying. A necessary part of innovation is that you have to have experiments which try something new and fail. The pressure to "pick winners" is one of the things that retards innovation. Regards, Zooko [1] http://www.bazaar-ng.org/doc/darcs.html _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users