[luriel]

> Darcs was pretty neat at the time, especially since it was the only open DVCS.

You are forgetting Tom Lord's arch, which had a really bizarre interface (even more so than Darcs), but was conceptually very nice.

[onedognight]

> You are forgetting Tom Lord's arch, which had a really bizarre interface (even more so than Darcs)

Darcs has a terrific consistent interface. Git has taken liberally from it. "git log -p" and "git add -p" are straight from darcs. AFAIK, nothing before darcs could look at a repo as a stream of diffs and comments.