From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T11:24:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito)

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:10:14AM +0900, Eero Saynatkari wrote:
> 
> You missed Mercurial (hg), actually a fairly good one.
> 
> One point that may be important to many is that out of the distributed
> SCM's that I have tried (git, monotone, bzr, mercurial, darcs), only
> darcs supports output to a generic format, XML.

On the other hand, I know people who treat XML as a binary format
because though it's actually plain text with markup, the markup is so
dense and difficult to understand when parsing by eye sometimes that it
might as well be nothing but ones and zeroes.

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