Hi Michael,

> However, it's not clear to
> me what the benefits of the theory are in practical terms. Is anyone
> able to explain why might one prefer this model over those that seem
> to underly the more mainstream systems?

I recently read a Mercurial tutorial (hginit.com). It takes some time
explaining why you need to run "hg merge" so as to rewire the history
right (http://hginit.com/02.html). Of course this has to be in the
tutorial because it's how Mercurial works, and doing "hg merge"
happens all the time in a distributed environment. Git and Bazaar work
similarly. On the other hand, darcs does not have such a command
because it is not needed.

So the plus of darcs for me is that you need to learn less and type
less in order to achieve the same result than with the aforementioned
systems.

Guillaume
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