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Work in progress on translating the introduction chapter. I also added a non exhaustive list of major Open Source projet using Mercurial. This list still needs to be 'linked' with the appropriate URLs, and also to be 'backported' into the english and spanish version of hgbooks.
author Romain PELISSE <romain.pelisse@atosorigin.com>
date Sun Feb 08 14:17:16 2009 +0100 (2009-02-08)
parents f3bef43b8ca1 635d7c0fcac3
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     1.1 --- a/en/intro.tex	Tue Aug 26 14:14:19 2008 -0700
     1.2 +++ b/en/intro.tex	Sun Feb 08 14:17:16 2009 +0100
     1.3 @@ -373,11 +373,16 @@
     1.4  learn to use the other.  Both tools are portable to all popular
     1.5  operating systems.
     1.6  
     1.7 +Prior to version 1.5, Subversion had no useful support for merges.
     1.8 +At the time of writing, its merge tracking capability is new, and known to be
     1.9 +\href{http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.finalword}{complicated
    1.10 +  and buggy}.
    1.11 +
    1.12  Mercurial has a substantial performance advantage over Subversion on
    1.13  every revision control operation I have benchmarked.  I have measured
    1.14  its advantage as ranging from a factor of two to a factor of six when
    1.15  compared with Subversion~1.4.3's \emph{ra\_local} file store, which is
    1.16 -the fastest access method available).  In more realistic deployments
    1.17 +the fastest access method available.  In more realistic deployments
    1.18  involving a network-based store, Subversion will be at a substantially
    1.19  larger disadvantage.  Because many Subversion commands must talk to
    1.20  the server and Subversion does not have useful replication facilities,