I just evaluated prcs, cvs and monotone for a paper, representing somewhat the single-user scenario, client-server and peer-to-peer.
prcs can be used in a client-server setting too, but requires you to share disks, but has otherwise a really clean interface Not widely used, as far as I know. cvs is the most gorilla of the 3 and it shows especially when it comes to audit and monitoring (syntax for branching and mergeing seemed unnatural to me). monotone is the one to watch, if you ask me, but ran into multiple show-stoppers had I been using it in a production scenario. For instance, you can tag a version but there is no way to change or delete that. Now fixed, but I observed problems with merging two branches that did not have a common partent. sqlite back-end is promising for reporting type queries. I cannot for the life of me get used to the odly named file names or namespace in arch. Looked at darcs, but passed on it... don't recall why sorry. codeville seems neat. aegis too "formal" and restrictive. And quilt's patch management philosophy was not working for me. Still looking for the 'right' tool... /Allan
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