[Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

[Bill Baxter]

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeProgram

This is a bit puzzling.  I understand better merging isn't the only
reason to choose DVCS, but the above page basically says that
Mercurial just uses whatever external merge program it can find.  So
the file-level merging sounds like it must really be no different from
other VCSs.

So it is really just proper merging of directory renames and the like
that make it superior?

--bb