Comparison with Git, Mercurial or Darcs?

[Daniel Carrera]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Ben Finney writes:
> 
>  > I must say, this sounds like a distortion of a VCS to press it into
>  > service as a deployment tool, to the detriment of both purposes.
> 
> Some people see VCSes as SCMs, software configuration management
> tools.  Personally, I think they're right, but implementation has been
> poor as yet.

How does a VCS differ from an SCM? I thought that SCM was Source Code 
Manager and was just another word for VCS.

Daniel.