This talk will briefly describe the problem of revision control, and explain some of the trade-offs in designing a trivial revision control system and how just a few simple ideas can be combined to produce something remarkably close to GNU Arch.

After this, I’ll describe some of the concerns in using Arch in practice. A final section of the talk will mention other contenders in the revision control world and the situations in which you might want to use them instead.

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