[svlug] Maintaining config files for various servers

[J C Lawrence]

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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:55:50 -0700 
Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting J C Lawrence (claw at kanga.nu):

>> Note that BK is free for SysAdm use.

> Hi, J C.  

Long time no talk or see Rick.  How goes?

> Another option to bear in mind: Tom Lord's GNU Arch has also gotten
> truly spiff when most people weren't looking, and is open source.  The
> architecture will be fairly familiar to BK fans: As with BK, any
> branch or developer's private work area can be treated as a repository
> of its own, with a global name space for developers, repositories, and
> branches.  Both the design spec (which has multiple implementations,
> not just Lord's) and the codebase have been stable for the last couple
> of years, happily.

I should look at Arch again.

> (That having been said, BK's technical merit is indeed without peer;
> it's the one to beat.)

Aye, the merge tools in particular are far beyond anything else I've
seen out there, and that's just the start.

> I've tried to keep up to date on developments at "SCMs" on
> http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Devtools/ .

Good stuff.

-- 
J C Lawrence
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