From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-02-06T11:52:45+09:00
Subject: Re: revision control, arch and subversion

* Phil Tomson (ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com) wrote:

[arch]
> written in 40K lines of shell scripts, sed and awk!
> (http://www.regexps.com/#arch)
>
> Imagine the nightmare that would be to maintain.

Indeed.  I'm more interested in the underlying filesystem based RCS
architecture than what it's implimented in though.

Ugh.

-% make
"Makefile", line 8: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 9: Need an operator

Spot the GNU evilness.  I bet the .sh is all targetted at a /bin/sh ->
/usr/local/bin/bash too.  *mutter*.  gmake test will be interesting.

> What about a similar sort of system (except that it would probably
> be a lot smaller and easier to maintain) written in Ruby?  If it
> worked well as a replacement for CVS it could get certainly get Ruby
> installed on a lot more machines ;-)

Work off the same underlying filesystem and it can leech off the
development of arch too.

I've been looking for a way of implimenting a versioning filesystem,
including renames etc, so I'd certainly welcome a module that
implimented something like this.

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