Re: More on "arch" (our competition)

        Greg Hudson comments:

        I also haven't seen much attention paid to efficiency in it's
        architecture.

Some operations have net yet been heavily optimized, but that is not
the same thing as not paying attention to efficiency in the
architecture.

        It's written entirely in /bin/sh,

There are some small, generic, helper programs, in C.

One thing I've wondered about Subversion meets arch: a useful
operation is to be able to diff two revisions, producing a patch set
which can be given to people not using version control.

Neither Posix nor GNU patch files handle file and directory renaming.
arch provides a patch set format which does, and portable scripts
which process those patch sets.

Perhaps we should "standardize" a new patch set format.

-t

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