> Systems like SVN, Mercurial & Co all seem to mostly do the right thing for the user with minimal knowledge on the user side.
I have an another blog idea for you: what are these "right things"? I have used Mercurial a bit when I was new to programming, and back then Git and Mercurial seemed more or less the same with different command names. Today, I almost exclusively use (and hate) Git, but I find it hard to see what alternatives there would be in DVCS space, other than something lie Darcs/Pijul (perhaps my imagination has been stunted by too much exposure to Git). It will be great to have someone with the knowledge lay it out comprehensively and explicitly, so that the next generation of VCS developers will be able to build upon it.
I have an another blog idea for you: what are these "right things"? I have used Mercurial a bit when I was new to programming, and back then Git and Mercurial seemed more or less the same with different command names. Today, I almost exclusively use (and hate) Git, but I find it hard to see what alternatives there would be in DVCS space, other than something lie Darcs/Pijul (perhaps my imagination has been stunted by too much exposure to Git). It will be great to have someone with the knowledge lay it out comprehensively and explicitly, so that the next generation of VCS developers will be able to build upon it.