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2 unusual facts about GNU arch


GNU arch

The original author and maintainer of GNU arch was Thomas Lord who started the project in 2001.

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To simulate the behavior of centralized revision control systems, the head developer could allow shell access (SSH) or write access (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV) to a server, allowing authorized users to commit to a central server.


SVK

SVK (also written svk) is a decentralized version control system written in Perl, with a hierarchical distributed design comparable to centralized deployment of BitKeeper and GNU arch.


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