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Ben Finney wrote:
> Mercurial – are the ones to choose from. Anoyone recommending a VCS tool
> that has poor merging support (such as Subversion or, heaven help us,
> CVS) is doing the newcomer a disservice.
>   
> True enough. But the modern crop of first-tier VCSen – Bazaar, Git,
For a single user, there would be no merge issue. And svn is very simple 
to use.
That would not be a such bad advice for a beginner with VCS systems.

JM