How to use the new revision system

[Martin F K. <kr...@ai...>]

Arch is a great system, btw, and I suggest bazaar [0] instead of
tla: http://bazaar.canonical.com/

arch is a distributed SCM and essentially, there are two modes of
checking out the archive now: read-only and write. Write is not what
it may seem, you won't be able to commit directly, but instead you
will branch off the main tree and your branch can then be easily
merged when you are done.

To checkout the archive in read-only mode:

  $ baz register-archive sftp://arch.madduck.net/srv/arch/madduck/pub/2005/=
coding
  $ baz get ma...@ar...--2005-coding/libkdtree--main--0 libtre=
e++
  [...]
  $ baz update

If you want to create a branch for your local development, you need
to set up your own arch archive, which you can name however you
like:

  $ baz my-id 'my name <my...@em...>'
  $ baz make-archive my...@em...--external ~/arch/external
  $ baz branch ma...@ar...--2005-coding/libkdtree--main--0 \
      my...@em...--external/libkdtree--myname--0
  $ baz get my...@em...--external/libkdtree--myname--0 libtree++
  [...]
  # merge new changes from my repository into yours
  $ baz merge ma...@ar...--2005-coding/libkdtree--main--0
  [...]
  # commit your own changes to your local repository
  $ baz commit
  [...]

And then to prepare a changeset between your branch and mine:

  $ baz delta ma...@ar...--2005-coding/libkdtree--main--0 \
      my...@em...--external/libkdtree--myname--0 \
      /tmp/libkdtree--myname
  $ baz show-changeset --diffs /tmp/libkdtree--myname
  [...]

More info about arch is available from here:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/tutorial/arch.html
  http://wiki.gnuarch.org/
  http://wiki.gnuarch.org/Learning_20Arch_20commands_20for_20CVS_20users
  http://debian.madduck.net/pkg-zope/wiki/Arch/Setup
  http://debian.madduck.net/pkg-zope/wiki/Arch/Basics

I hope this helps. Sorry if my change too you by surprise, but I've
had it with CVS once and for all! Arch is *much* nicer!

Feel free to ask me any questions about it.

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