Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc.
Posted Jun 3, 2004 12:40 UTC (Thu) by
Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to:
Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc. by piman
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Arch for CVS Users (Linux Journal)
Nobody's mentioned BitKeeper ... it sounds to me like Arch is meant to be similar in principle.
I do not want ANYONE updating my archive. And the central project archive should only be updated by ONE person (or a group agreeing amongst themselves).
Linus uses BitKeeper because he can give everyone *read* access to his tree and they keep themselves up-to-date. He has *read* access to other peoples' trees and can update his system from theirs as he sees fit.
I get the impression Arch is designed to work the same way - you need one person keeping the master repository up-to-date by *pull*ing from the developers, and the developers keeping up-to-date by *pull*ing from the master.
If you think in CVS terms you won't understand what the hell is going on, because CVS is a *push* system - the deverloper pushes updates to the central repository.
Cheers,
Wol
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