Distributed Revision Control Via the World Wide Web

Revision control has long been a standard part of software development. With the enormous expansion of the Internet and its increasing use as a means of communicating among geographically dispersed software developers, the need for distributed version control over the Internet has become acute. In order to address this need, the authors have developed a revision control server based on the World Wide Web (WWW) and RCE (an outgrowth of RCS). This proves to be possible and it also highlights the strengths and weaknesses of using the Hyper Text Mark up Language and standard WWW browsers such as NetScape™and Mosaic to accomplish this goal.