On 15-Aug-08, at 7:27 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:

> So, MC likes to talk about nodes (whole artifacts) rather than edges  
> (changes/deltas), primarily?

Yes. MC captures the state of an artifact and relates it to previous  
states. The deltas almost never reified - the only exception is when  
the user asks to view the differences between two states.

> This is one of the things that darcs does very differently from most  
> of the other DVCSs out there: most of them talk about nodes, darcs  
> talks only about edges and infers the nodes when it needs to. It's  
> an interesting tradeoff.

Darcs is interesting, certainly. The initial impetus for MC2 was a  
discussion Avi and I had about the Darcs theory of patches, but we  
ultimately decided to go in a different direction.

Colin