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[ excerpt from developer's web site ]
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Why yet another version control system? All other version control
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systems require that you keep careful track of the relationships
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between branches so as not have to repeatedly merge the same
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conflicts. Codeville is much more anarchic. It allows you to update
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from or commit to any repository at any time with no unnecessary
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re-merges.
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Codeville works by creating an identifier for each change which is
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done, and remembering the list of all changes which have been applied
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to each file and the last change which modified each line in each
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file. When there's a conflict, it checks to see if one of the two
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sides has already been applied to the other one, and if so makes
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the other side win automatically. When there's an actual not
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automatically mergeable version conflict, Codeville behaves in
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almost exactly the same way as CVS.
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For subtle but very important reasons Codeville actually versions
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spaces between lines, rather than the lines themselves. If you want
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to know the complete accurate details of how it works, you can look
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at the slides. Beyond that, I suggest reading the source.
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WWW: http://www.codeville.org/
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