What makes merging in DVCS easy?

Question

I read at Joel on Software:

With distributed version control, the distributed part is actually not the most interesting part.

The inte

Answer 1

One point is that svn merging is subtly broken; see http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/07/subversion-merg.html I suspect this is in conjunction with svn recording mergeinfo even on cherry-picking merges. Add a few plain bugs in handling border cases, and svn as the current poster child of CVCS makes them look bad as opposed to all the DVCS which just got it right.