[Savannah-hackers] Re: address@hidden: arch]

[Hugo Gayosso]

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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Would someone please take a look at arch and tell
> me what you think of it?  Is it really better than CVS?
> Would we want to use it instead of CVS?
> 
> Please ack if you are interested in doing this.

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FYI:

There is an article in Slashdot about 'arch'

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/05/2155215&mode=thread

Tom Lord's Decentralized Revision Control System
[ Programming ]Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 05, @17:14
from the interesting-approach dept.

Bruce Perens writes: "He'll have to change its name, but Tom Lord's
arch revision control system is revolutionary. Where CVS is a
cathedral, 'arch' is a bazaar, with the ability for branches to live
on separate servers from the main trunk of the project's
development. Thus, you can create a branch without the authority, or
even the cooperation, of the managers of the main tree. A global
name-space makes all revision archives worldwide appear as if they are
the same repository. Using this system, most of what we do using
'patch' today would go away -- we'd just choose, or merge,
branches. Much of the synchronization problem we have with patches is
handled by tools that eliminate and/or manage conflicts -- they solve
some of the thorny graph topology issues around patch management. Arch
also poses its own answer to the 'Linus Doesn't Scale' problem. This
is well worth checking out." If you're asking "What about
subversion?", well, so is Tom.

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