Revision control systems [Was: I broke the build]

[Adam Megacz <patches at lists dot megacz dot com>]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> Another is that ChangeLog records all changes, not just changes to a
> given file.  To get the same information out of cvs you have to write
> a special script (AFAIK).

Ah, is this because cvs doesn't understand changesets?

BTW, I'm trying to decide on a revision control system for
XWT... right now it's looking like arch or bitkeeper... does anybody
have any comments on the relitave merits?

I like the fact that arch is GPL, small-and-simple, and doesn't have
wierd you-must-send-us-your-changelogs requirements. OTOH, arch can't
tunnel through ssh (passwords in the clear via ftp == bad), and it's
written mostly in sh, which really creeps me out. Now that Linus is
using bitkeeper, I guess I can expect lots of people to be familiar
with it.

Anybody here used either one?

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