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by panic 3738 days ago
Well, just to give you a taste, here's an excerpt from "Revision Control with Arch: Introduction to Arch" in Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7671):

In Arch, a changeset is represented as a directory tree full of bookkeeping files, patches, new files and removed files. The best contribution technique is to create a changeset directory and then tar it up for delivery:

    $ tla changes -o ,,new-robot-comment
    $ tar czvf my-changes.tar.gz ,,new-robot-comment/
Arch ignores files beginning with two commas, an equal sign and a few other special characters. By using a ,, at the start of our changeset directory name, we avoid the annoyance of Arch complaining that our new directory doesn't exist in the archive. It is probably good practice to use your e-mail address or some other identifier in the tarball filename and changeset directory name.