On Tue 11.Nov'08 at 11:38:10 -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
[...]
> 
> Git has separated the idea of ``Author'' and ``Committer''. CVS, RCS,
> Subversion and Mercurial don't. 

[...]
 
> I propose that we agree that Git and Mercurial are not the same, that we
> agree that Git's idea of committer and Mercurial's idea of username are
> analogous, and that Git's author header be incorporated in the free-form
> commit log.

Ok, Mercurial et al. are really different from the concept I was used to 
and which looked more "natural" in a distributed system.

I will abide by the decision of using Mercurial and its view of SCM, as
far as the Window Maker repo is concerned.

For me this discussion met its end now :-)


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