Why git or Mercurial? (Was: Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] Switch to svn?)

[matthieu castet]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> 
> 
> it would be interresting to see some examples of the practical use cases
> something like the equivalents of:
> 
> vi blah ; cvs di -u blah ; cvs commit blah
> cvs up blah
> cvs di -u -r 1.11 -r 1.12 blah
> cvs log blah
> cvs annotate -r 1.234 blah
> cvs add blah
> cvs remove blah
> ssh server ; cp blah,v blue,v
> cvs admin -o
> cvs admin -m
> 
> and how much diskspace it needs on the client side
> 
for mercurial :
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/CvsCommands