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Tom Lord's Decentralized Revision Control System
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.
In his FAQ he states it works on any system that's POSIX compliant.
/me high-fives Tom
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A global name-space makes all revision archives worldwide appear as if they are the same repository
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
Do yellow Post-It notes stuck to the bezel of my monitor count?
"Good things don't end with eum, they end with mania or teria." - H. Simpson
I'd say you must be new here, but your user id is too low for that. Hmmm, did you get a good deal for it on ebay?
XML causes global warming.