On 18 November 2010 09:48, Loui Chang <louipc....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd almost say I'd like to see something like a Launchpad or Sourceforge > for the AUR, with everything you need available via a more-or-less > homogenous interface. But all features should be accessible via the > command line as the core interface. It seems like everything out there > is web based which bugs me for some reason.
+1 I feel the same for some reason. This I can say is worth dabbling into. On 18 November 2010 10:45, Kaiting Chen <kaitocr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I meant that you can do a 'svn update' or 'cvs update' to merge changes >> from the server into your working dir. >> > > But you cannot commit to your local repository. Nor can you branch, tag, > etc. Basically you can't do anything useful with a traditional VCS in a > decentralized structure like the AUR. --Kaiting. There are branches and tags in Subversion, though a little different (being it's all centralised). You can do everything useful if you put aside the concept of a local repository. But I guess that very same concept is what makes a decentralised VCS pretty versatile.