Bazaar still below the radar when evaluating VCS tools

[Joseph Wakeling]

Ben Finney wrote:
> Martin Fowler (of ThoughtWorks and much software-engineering wisdom) has
> posted an article on the “recommendability” of VCS tools:
> 
> Martin Fowler's voice carries a lot of weight in many quarters; it seems
> Bazaar escaped evaluation only because he doesn't hear about it enough.
> Could someone rectify that for him?

Unfortunately it's not limited to him.  A recent Communications of the
ACM article by Bryan O'Sullivan ['Making sense of revision-control
systems', Commun. ACM 52(9): 57--62 (2009)] mentions Git and Mercurial
repeatedly but never once mentions Bazaar.  It also makes brief but
detailed reference to Darcs' powerful theoretical approach.  The article
is available at:
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1562164.1562183

Incidentally, it notes that 'Both Mercurial and Git handle renames
cleanly'.  Is this now true ... ?

Best wishes,

    -- Joe