{"id":7307,"date":"2003-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/18\/gnu-arch-first-impressions\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T00:22:54","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T21:22:54","slug":"gnu-arch-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/18\/gnu-arch-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"GNU Arch &#8211; first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Something really strange happened today.  I never thought that this is possible, even less that it could happen to me, but it did.  CVS did something really strange to my Intranet\/Webcentral repository.  All the code is there, but there is no more diffirentiation between versions.  Whatever you try to see, you get all the code at once.  Yuck!<\/p>\n<p>That happened probably because I was waiting for something like this to happen.  Not like this, but, well, whatever.  I&#8217;ve been constantly irritated with CVS recently.  Maybe I am using it wrong, maybe it&#8217;s the wrong tool for the job, maybe something else.  Anyway, I switched to using  <A HREF=\"http:\/\/freshmeat.net\/projects\/archrevctl\/\">arch<\/A>.  It seems to be better then CVS in certain areas, so I decided to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the first impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No RPM found in standard places like <A HREF=\"http:\/\/freshrpms.net\">FreshRPMs<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/rpmfind.net\">RPMfind.net<\/A>.  Maybe they are there, but I was not looking hard enough.<\/li>\n<li>Building from source is simple, but two things I hate: 1.  Files like INSTALL and README start with a &#8220;=&#8221; sign.  &#8220;=README&#8221; and &#8220;=INSTALL&#8221; is something  that disturbes me. :)  2. configure didn&#8217;t want to start in the same directory I got after extracting the .tar.gz .  I had to make another one and start configure from there.  Messy. <\/li>\n<li>Organization of archives, projects, branches and versions is much cleaner then in CVS.<\/li>\n<li>Resource like <A HREF=\"http:\/\/cvshome.org\">CVS Home<\/A> is either missing or not easy\/fast to find.  Again, I was not looking hard enough just yet.<\/li>\n<li>Generation of GNU Changelogs is sweet.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;so are the patchset, although until now I just like the idea, but have no practice.  I can see that it&#8217;s possible, just haven&#8217;t got myself that far yet.<\/li>\n<li>Distributed repositories and ease of setting one up using http\/ftp\/sft\/etc blows my imagination.  Simpliest so far.  Mine is over sftp. :)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be writing more code in all the different place for the next few days, I guess.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Something really strange happened today. I never thought that this is possible, even less that it could happen to me, but it did. CVS did something really strange to my Intranet\/Webcentral repository. All the code is there, but there is no more diffirentiation between versions. Whatever you try to see, you get all the code &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/18\/gnu-arch-first-impressions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GNU Arch &#8211; first impressions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1588],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","tag-version-control"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2002\/01\/18\/java-cvs-and-documentation\/","url_meta":{"origin":7307,"position":0},"title":"Java, CVS, and documentation","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 18, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"Last few days were pretty active. First of all, I was playing with apache, JBoss and resin setup. I managed to get them to work together, although failed to make resin handle web apps from the \/. I also spent a fair amount of time on CVS, mutt+gnupg, CA with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8691,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/08\/revision-control-systems\/","url_meta":{"origin":7307,"position":1},"title":"Revision Control Systems","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Hazard sent me this link to a presentation about revision control systems. It reviews mainly CVS, Subversion, and Gnu Arch. 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