RCS utility

[Tom Huppi]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Xinizul Xinizul wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I want to share a tool I just discovered yesterday which I found to be
> very useful.
>
> It is named RCS and allow us -specially for newbies people- to keep
> version control over text files -as the system ones-.

I think that it's a bit of a mis-conception to consider RCS to be
a tool which is particularly associated with 'system files',
although it's probably the most common use these days.

A decade ago or less (I believe), it was not uncommon for teams of
developers to use this revision control system for development
efforts.  Now-adays, people are probably more familiar with CVS
which, interestingly (to me), started life as a set of shell
scripts to make it easier for multiple people to use RCS.  In
fact you can still use many RCS commands on ',v' files within a
CVS repository.

If you think RCS is cool for general text file maintanence, you
really should consider CVS as well.  It's relatively easy to use,
and a good deal more convenient for a lot of things.  I just set
up a test repository, commited a file and made a revision to test
my above assurtion, and the process took about a minute ('course,
I dunnit before :)

Thanks,

 - Tom

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> Xinizul.