David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes: > I suspect most of this also works with s/git/hg/ assuming NetBSD > switches to a mercurial repo Indeed, all of this is not really about git. Systems in the class of "distributed VCS" have two important properties: commits are atomic across the repo, not per file anyone can prepare commits, whether or not they are authorized to apply them to the repo. an authorized person can apply someone else's commit. These more or less lead to "local copy of the repo". And there are web tools for people who just want to look at something occasionally. But I find that it's not that big, that right now I have 3 copies (8, 9, current), and that it's nice to be able to do things offline (browse, diff, commit). CVS is really just RCS with organization into groups of files ability to operate over ssh (rsh originally :-) That was really great in 1994; I remember what a big advance it was (seriously).
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