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GNU Arch variants

Posted Mar 3, 2005 11:14 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
Parent article: Version Control with GNU Arch

How does ArX compare to Bazaar (http://bazaar.canonical.com) ?

I have found tla to be utter braindead user-interface-wise, but bazaar is much, much better (although not even close to perfect yet). If I only had tla to work with, I would never have adopted arch for my work...

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GNU Arch variants

Posted Mar 3, 2005 17:24 UTC (Thu) by vmole (guest, #111) [Link]

As far as I can tell, Bazaar is new, sane, UI on top of arch, while ArX is a different implementation with different goals. In particular, you can use bazaar with arch repos; I don't think the same is true of ArX.

GNU Arch variants

Posted Mar 4, 2005 4:27 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

Note that bazaar is not just a new command line interface on top of tla. There have been a number of new features added, such as a more intelligent merge algorithm that doesn't get confused in the presence of merge loops. There have been a number of performance improvements too, that reduce the number of round trips needed when updating from a remote archive (provided the revisions were committed with baz).