Martin Pool's blog

How Arch Works


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Tom Lord wrote a good whitepaper on How Arch Works. I think this answers a lot of questions about why it is the way it is that might be troubling people who have just read the tutorial.

Doing powerful distributed version control with *no* server-side computation is just brilliant, with great results for scalability, security, reliability and simplicity. One idea that good makes a good year.

I should really write something about arch security vs CVS.

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