The RPM.org site is using Mercurial

[John Villalovos]

On 12/15/06, John Villalovos <sodarock at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just noticed that the newly announced RPM development repository is
> using Mercurial.
>
> http://wiki.rpm.org/GetSource

Relating to that.  It was posted to Slashdot.org

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/040258

And someone posted this:
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Version control
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by Anonymous Conrad (600139) Alter Relationship on Friday December 15,
@02:41AM (#17252608)
>From the new site:

| The varous[sic] source code managed by rpm.org is held in a series |
of mercurial repositories.

Now I'm all for innovation, when appropriate - but if you want people
to pitch into a new project why pick a fringe VCS? Why not pick
something standard that everyone will have like subversion? mercurial
didn't even make it into base Fedora.
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Not sure if anyone is good at making a good reasonable response to why
a project should use Mercurial over Subversion for development.