Comparison with Git, Mercurial or Darcs?

[David Cournapeau]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Note that in all practical cases I can think of git *will* correctly
> detect your renames (even if you forgot to say "git mv") and that with
> appropriate options (considered "expensive" and therefore off by
> default) it can display history of a file correctly (up to the
> infinitesimal probability that you did something like example A
> above).

It is also quite useful when interacting with other VCS: git-svn gives
me much better information about the svn data than svn itself (in
particular, git blame -C -M is very powerful - and very slow as well :) ).

David