Well, after spending some time evaluating gnu-arch as a replacement for the increasingly dated CVS, we’ve pretty much decided arch isn’t currently the way to go. Next stop, darcs. Like arch, darcs is distributed, meaning everyone gets their own version control but, unlike arch, every time you make a new checkout of the repo, you get a new repo. What this means is that you don’t have to worry about being online, or offline, or branching, or anything similar. You get your new copy, and you work on it. If you want to, you can then push the changes back to the mainline. I’m about as excited about this as I was about arch when I started looking at it, so we’ll see. The big advantage is that it’ll work on windows, and the osx support should suck less than arch’s. Only time will tell.

Categories: Coding, Psi