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I am starting a new open source project. What version control system should I use?

Essay and/or background: I am building an domain specific language for backing up different types of data. I plan to have a few core committers

and the ability for people to submit plugin code that extends the DSL.

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Centralized server backups are critical; distributed VCS are more robust when backups are not perfect.

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Centralized server leads to outages when not available.

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It is slow, has no sensible merge support, and centralized model is its biggest weakness in distributed environments. Storage layout very ineffective. Takes a lot to setup

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Using a linear history forces to merge before committing, which is less safe: a merge is a potentially troublesome operation, requiring time to obtain a new working revision.

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Although it is getting better with Eclipse and Tortoise, there is still limited IDE support.

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Always having to do a merge can fill changelog with a lot of merge changsets even when there is no files you have to merge in a traditional sense.

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'Everything is a branch' mentality definitely has a learning curve for svn and cvs users.

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Trac can work with quite a few different version control systems. It is nice visualization tool, but not a vcs in its own right.

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While trac is a nice tool, it isn't exactly a version control system.

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Thanks, this is my mistake!

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