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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Arch source control
From: "Brandon Van Every" <vanevery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:09:40 -0800

From: <imbaczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> http://www.xouvert.org/ states:
>
> What is Arch?
>
> Arch[1] is what makes Xouvert possible. Arch is Tom Lord's advanced
> changeset management system, a superset of mere "revision control
> systems" like CVS and Subversion. Arch will let us make radical
> changes to the directory layout of Xouvert, yet still be able to
> easily track and apply the changes in the original XFree86 tree.
>
> The clean design of arch makes it trivial for anyone who downloads our
> source code to create their own local "branch" for development, keep
> it under revision control, then have their modifications merged, with
> complete history, back upstream at some point in the future. This is
> next to impossible to do with CVS.
>
> [1] http://arch.fifthvision.net/

Thanks for the link, Marek.  Have you guys ever considered using Arch
instead of CVS?  Would it help you any?

Cheers,
Brandon Van Every



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