arch Meets hello-world
A Tutorial Introduction to The arch Revision Control System

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Contents

• Introducing arch
• System Requirements
• arch Commands in General
• Summary of the Examples
• Introducing Yourself to arch
• Creating a New Archive
• Starting a New Project
• Starting a New Source Tree
• Project Tree Inventories
• Inventory Tags for Source
• Importing the First Revision
• Checking-in Changes
• Retrieving Earlier Revisions
• Shared and Public Archives
• The update/commit Style of Cooperation
• Introducing Changesets
• Exploring Changesets
• Introducing replay -- An Alternative to update
• Selected Files Commit
• Elementary Branches -- Maintaining Private Changes
• Some Usage Advice -- Making Private Mirrors
• Patch Logs and Project Tree History
• Development Branches -- The star-merge Style of Cooperation
• Symbolic Tags
• Cherrypicking Changes
• Multi-tree Projects and Configuration Management
• Speeding up arch by Caching Revisions in Archives
• Speeding up arch with Revision Tree Libraries
• Driving Process Automation with arch Notifiers
• The arch Changeset Format
• Customizing the inventory Naming Conventions
• The GNU Free Documentation License
• The GNU General Public License
• Uh....a Little Help Here?
• Indexes

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