Editing GNU arch (section)

{{Short description|Distributed revision control system}}
{{Infobox software
| name = GNU arch
| logo = [[File:GNU arch logo.png|frameless|upright]]
| screenshot =
| caption = GNU arch logo
| author = Thomas Lord
| developer = Andy Tai
| discontinued = yes
| latest_release_version = 1.3.5
| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2006|07|20}}
| latest_preview_version =
| latest_preview_date =
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating_system = [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Mac OS X]]
| platform =
| genre = [[Revision control]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/}}
}}
{{About|the GNU distributed revision control system|the GNU/Linux distribution with similar name|Arch Linux}}
'''GNU arch''' [[software]] is a [[distributed revision control]] system that is part of the [[GNU Project]] and licensed under the [[GNU General Public License]]. It is used to keep track of the changes made to a source tree and to help programmers combine and otherwise manipulate changes made by multiple people or at different times.

As of 2009, GNU arch's official status is deprecation, and only security fixes are applied.<ref name="arch-status-2008">{{Cite mailing list
|last = Tai
|first = Andy
|title = Re: revc
|url = http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2008-03/msg00003.html
|mailing-list = gnu-arch-users
|date = 2008-03-28
|access-date = 2008-06-17}}</ref>  [[GNU bzr|Bazaar (or 'bzr')]] has since also been made an official GNU project and can thus be considered the replacement for GNU arch.  It is not a fork of arch.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Bazaar|url=http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/HistoryOfBazaar|access-date=20 May 2014|archive-date=26 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226181637/http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/HistoryOfBazaar|url-status=dead}}</ref>