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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.

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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