Not a holy war - just some salient facts

[Harry Putnam]

Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 16:04, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
>> But I'm not really clear about what is the difference between this
>> animal, a `scm' (I guess), and vcs type tools.  It appears to have
>> some kind of different focus but I'm not getting what it is.
>>
>> Wikipedia (in the first few lines) indicates the names [scm|vcs] are
>>  interchangeable ..  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
>>
>> is that right? or do they have different intended usage?
>
> SCM and VCS are often used interchangeably, but there are subtle
> differences. You could review the wiki pages to get an idea:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_configuration_management

I did plow through pretty fast, but I think they may be a bit too
subtle for me to pickup on.

Does Mercurial fall in both definitions?