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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.
scooby dooby doo!!!
Decentralization is a communist idea.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
i appreciate you.
cathy.
Other than CVS and arc, are there any other (GPL)software revision control system available, and how best you rate them ?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
All this is thanks to Calculus! Praise the integral!
Why did they only blow up half the death star?
Why didnt they just blow up the whole thing, then they wouldnt have had to come back and blow up the rest in Episode VI?
Doesnt that make more sense?
Robble Robble.
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Cool! I guess it has! Oh damn, this post is going to get it banned again. :-(
shut the fuck up with all this cathedral and bazaar bullshit. ESR was grasping at straws when he coined the term, it never quite fit, and yet people persist in trying to make it somehow apply to every tom, dick, and harry's freshly invented concept.