[TriLUG] Alternatives to CVS

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Thu Mar 25 11:31:23 EST 2004


I've been meaning to set up some kind of source control repository for
my pet projects for some time now.  I have a simple CVS setup, but have
been looking to expand my horizons somewhat.  Recently on the
PostgreSQL-Hackers list there has been some debate over whether the
pgsql development should be moved to something more conducive to the
distributed development model common to open source projects.

In the mayhem which ensued, a new player in the svn vs. cvs arena was
introduced: Arch.  I hadn't heard of it, but after doing some digging, I
think I like it.  Here are a few links as introduction:

http://wiki.gnuarch.org/ -- The main page for Arch information.
http://web.verbum.org/tla/grokking-arch/grokking-arch.html -- the best
link I've seen on describing the differences between CVS and Arch, and
the problems with CVS that Arch solves.

Joseph





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