Codeville is a distributed revision control

Distributed revision control

A distributed revision control system , distributed version control or decentralized version control keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network.-Distributed vs...

 system. It was written by Ross Cohen using Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

, with some design work done by Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent...

. It uses an innovative merging

Merge (revision control)

Merging in revision control, is a fundamental operation that reconciles multiple changes made to a revision-controlled collection of files. Most often, it is necessary when a file is modified by two people on two different computers at the same time...

 algorithm

Algorithm

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called the "Codeville merge". A new merge algorithm called "Precise Codeville" or "pcvd" merge was under development. The project has now been abandoned.

Codeville is self hosted and also used by BitTorrent, Inc and Mosuki.

External links

• Freshmeat repository
• Description of the new codeville merge algorithm
• Description of the Precise Codeville Merge (pcvd) algorithm
• Announcement of Python implementation of pcvd
  • Python source code for pcvd
• Revision control wiki