Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Mercurial – are the ones to choose from. Anoyone recommending a VCS tool > > that has poor merging support (such as Subversion or, heaven help us, > > CVS) is doing the newcomer a disservice. > > True enough. But the modern crop of first-tier VCSen – Bazaar, > > Git, > For a single user, there would be no merge issue. And svn is very > simple to use.
Bazaar and Mercurial are also simple to use, and you won't have to un-learn them when you want a good VCS for collaboration. > That would not be a such bad advice for a beginner with VCS systems. I disagree; a beginner can just as easily learn a better VCS and avoid the bad habits that come along with lesser tools. -- \ “Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of | `\ the not worth knowing.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
