Re: deleting rcs keywords from emacs sources

[Nick Roberts]

 > > while Subversion is modelled to be "a better CVS". Switching to Subversion
 > > would be, I think, a lot less painful.
 > 
 > Actually I suspect that arch would is likely easier, despite the differences
 > -- its network model is extremely flexible and simple, and it has none of the
 > special hosting requirements that subversion does.
 > 
 > I say "is" because as you might know, there's _already_ an emacs arch archive
 > (synchronized with CVS), which could take over from CVS quickly if the
 > developers wanted that (the main sticking point being that it's running on
 > fencepost, not on savannah, so anyone that wanted commit access would need to
 > have ssh access there; moving to savannah would probably be pretty
 > straightforward except that _everything_ involving savannah is slow :-)

There is a project called Xouvert on Savannah that is trying to use arch for
version control. If you look at their mailing list you'll see that they have
had difficulty because of security issues. It might be a good idea to monitor
their progress (or lack of it).

Nick