Editing GNU arch (section)

=== revc ===

revc was a prototype revision control project by Thomas Lord that he intended to become GNU arch 2.0, designed to be a radical departure from tla and to draw many ideas from the [[Git (software)|Git]] revision control system.<ref name="revc-announce">{{Cite mailing list
 |url=http://ml.osdir.com/version-control.arch.devel/2005-06/msg00034.html
 |last=Lord 
 |first=Thomas 
 |date=2005-06-20 
 |access-date=2008-06-17 
 |title=arch 2.0 code base in progress 
 |mailing-list=gnu-arch-dev 
}}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It was announced in June 2005,<ref name="revc-announce"/> the first pre-release was in July<ref name="revc-release">{{Cite mailing list
 |last        = Lord
 |first       = Thomas
 |title       = GNU Arch 2.0 -- first source
 |url         = http://osdir.com/ml/version-control.arch.devel/2005-07/msg00006.html
 |date        = 2005-07-08
 |access-date  = 2008-06-17
 |mailing-list = gnu-arch-dev
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110517201422/http://osdir.com/ml/version-control.arch.devel/2005-07/msg00006.html
 |archive-date = 2011-05-17
 |url-status     = dead
}}</ref> and the last in August, just prior to Lord's resignation as maintainer.<ref>{{Cite mailing list
|url=http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2005-08/msg00009.html
|last=Lord
|first=Thomas
|title=Arch 2.0 release (revc.0.0x2)
|date=2005-08-01
|access-date=2008-06-17
|mailing-list=gnu-arch-users}}</ref> revc only had 10 core commands and Lord intended to eliminate restrictive namespaces, complicated file naming conventions and increase the speed.<ref name="revc-release"/>

As of 2008 the last pre-release, 0.0x2, of revc is still available<ref>{{Cite mailing list
|last = Wandrebeck
|first = Laurent
|url = http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2008-03/msg00000.html
|title = revc
|mailing-list = gnu-arch-users
|date=2008-03-26
|access-date=2008-06-17}}</ref> and Lord was still interested in some of the ideas in GNU arch but did not have the resources to resume development of revc.<ref>{{Cite mailing list
|last = Lord
|first = Thomas
|url = http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2008-03/msg00005.html
|title = Re: revc
|date=2008-03-28
|access-date=2008-06-17
|mailing-list=gnu-arch-users}}</ref>
Thomas Lord died in June 2022.<ref>{{Citation
|url = https://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2022-06-26/article/49837
|date=2022-06-26
|title = Thomas Lord 1966-2022}}</ref>