Edd Dumbill has written a real nice [short intro][bazintro] to the [Bazaar][baz] – a reimplementation of [GNU Arch][arch] revision control system. I have been getting tired of keeping up with new [Subversion][svn] revisions and the `mod_dav`/`mod_dav_svn` module that I need to keep updating. By contrast Arch allows read only archives using plain HTTP. Most importantly it supports distributed repositories – this allows me to maintain a repository of system config in the servers that I manage, and sync them when I want with my home machine. Since Subversion maintains the [CVS][cvs] tradition of centralized repositories, it was impossible to maintain two different revisions on the client machines before syncing them in one go with my backup server.
[bazintro]: http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/05/04-bazaar/read
[baz]: http://bazaar.canonical.com/
[arch]: http://www.gnuarch.org/
[svn]: http://subversion.tigris.org/
[cvs]: https://www.cvshome.org/
