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March 08, 2005
Archatecting a Plot
For some time now I've been writing code, doing web development, creating documents, etc... I've learned that the more of this you do the more important a good RCS (revision control system for you laypersons out there) can be. The bigger a project gets the more important source code control becomes.
In the past, CVS has been the de-facto standard of the RCS's out there, I don't think there's been a programmer who hasn't at least heard of it. CVS makes it very easy to keep track of the sourcecode and who's doing what with it.
There are a few downsides to CVS however, and it's starting to show it's age. One of the biggest problems to CVS and it's way of doing things is the open source paradigm (I'm gonna take what you've done, and make it better). Commonly known as a distributed repository. It's difficult to say the least to accomplish this with CVS.
Enter arch, or more correctly tla arch. It gives you the ablilty to break off of the main repository and work on a branch yourself, commiting changes and the whole nine yards. You can also merge these changes back into the main branch at any time in a smart fashion.
Now, I am, by no stretch of the imagination, an arch master/guru/demi-god, I just do realitively simple source code control. I therefore refer to a mailing list post that very well defines an arch "sucess story."
There are quite a few resources out there for learning about arch, not least of which is the arch wiki (link posted above). However there are many command-line options and commands that go into making arch a robust program, so it can be kind of disarming to get into arch with no previous knowlege of a RCS or transitioning from CVS. Brett Rasmussen (author of the above mailing list post) was kind enough to make up a little cheat sheet for those of us who don't really like digging through the wiki or the online help. And I thank him for letting me post it here.
Hopefully this info is of use to you, I know that I've benefited from it quite a bit.
derek
Posted by dcarter at 04:54 PM | TrackBack
March 01, 2005
New Guru Guide::Router on a stick
I just created my first guruguide:
Router on a Stick
Check it out.
neato tricko
derek