Re: distributed revision control?

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

knubee <knubee@gmail.com> writes:

> A colleague and I want to work on some shared documents via tramp and
> revision control. The issue: we do not have access to a shared
> location that could serve as a centralized repository. (Our project
> isn't an open source software project and doesn't warrant such things
> as sourceforge etc. We tried google projects but couldn't see a way to
> integrate this with emacs version control.)
>
> Reading about "distributed revision control systems" (DRCS) suggests
> this may be the way to go. However, most of the information we have
> found suggests that although individuals can work independently on
> their local versions, there is an assumption that at some point
> changes are committed to a single repository.
>
> The model we would like to pursue is that the local version of one of
> us exists as the main repository. So, one approach is" "committing" to
> that repository would take the form of something more like email than
> ftp/ssh access to a machine with a repository. (We are also open to
> other approaches)
>
> Does anyone here know if Arch or Bazaar-NG (or something else we could
> use from within emacs) support such a model? If so, any pointers to
> how to do this?
>
> (Sorry if this post is off topic. If there is a more appropriate list
> that deals with revision control systems available within emacs,
> please let me know.)
>
> thanks.
>

darcs is designed to deal with this problem.  Technically, there is no
central repository in darcs, all the sandboxes are branches.

Changes are not commited to any central repository, but at one point,
you may want to send your patches to the other guys, and vice versa.
If you're only two, it's ok; if you're more, it's easier if there is a
single central integrator.


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