aj on arch
aj is also looking at Arch.
To clarify my earlier comments: I think some of the problems with Arch at the moment are to do with the documentation not being up to date, but some are real shortcomings in the program. For example, tla what-changed --diffs leaves temporary file droppings in the current directory. Being able to get the changeset in structured form is nice, but leaving mess behind when I just look at the diffs is not. There is no built-in command to find out what changed between two revisions, even though this is probably one of the most-used commands for a version control system. (It's fine that this is not a fundamental operation and it's very clean that it's built on top of diffing trees, but there ought to be an easy interface for common operations.) I'm sure they'll fix it (or explain why I'm mistaken) in the fullness of time.
Subversion, meanwhile, is still answering the question “Is Subversion stable enough for me to use for my own projects?” with a less than reassuring “We think so!”.
I think that is more to do with modesty than it is with Subversion really being unstable. The Subversion developers on the whole seem less pugnacious than some other developers. I don't think that's a bad thing.
posted Tue 2 Sep 2003 in /software/vc/arch | link
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