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I used darcs for all personal repositories for a couple of years. It has a great UI, but I ended up moving to git for two reasons - a) most projects I was working on with other people were using git, and b) there was nothing like github for darcs (and still isn't as far as I know). It was really nice while it lasted though.

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Darcs is good for personal use, but I moved away primarily because of the exponential merge problem. I think darcs2 takes care of it in most of the cases but NOT always. That is a big question mark for production repository. Darcs is easy to get started with though - to anybody interested I recommend this link - http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/darcs.html .

On the other hand if you want to move from darcs to git , use the following - https://github.com/purcell/darcs-to-git

I'll just add that these days, people should consider using the Darcs bridge instead: http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsBridgeUsage

It's not ready for bi-directional incremental bridging, but for one shot conversions, it should be just fine.

The Darcs bridge uses the Darcs library to do things and understands Darcs better.

There's also http://darcsden.com/ - a little side-project of mine.

http://darcsden.com/alex/darcsden/patches

Same here and add to that "git branch". It's a bit silly, and I still miss the Darcy UI and patch-based model

You might want to take a look at https://patch-tag.com/

SSL errors on me due to an expired certificate. Great way to build confidence.

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