Free Software Magazine: Working Together and Sharing Code with TLA

“If you ever worked on a free software project or if you have
ever worked as a developer, you probably know that managing source
code, patches, and software release cycles is not the easiest task
to perform. Things get even worse if lots of people are working on
the same project: more code to manage, more people to coordinate,
more patches to integrate and mainstream. Even if you don’t write
software or have never worked on such projects, I’m sure that as an
addicted computer user sometimes you felt like ‘hey, why didn’t I
make a backup of that document,’ or ‘hell… I liked it better
before’ or ‘wow… why was that change introduced? I can’t remember
it…’ In this article, I won’t talk about the importance of
backups, which should already be clear in every reader’s mind, but
I will introduce a new and very powerful system useful for managing
source trees, tracking down changes, and allowing many people or
groups to work together or independently on the same projects: TLA,
often referred as GNU Arch, a new generation Version Control System
(VCS)…”

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