Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:16:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: robg <robg.list@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RCS tutorial (was: Re: "$Id: index.html,v 1.46 2004...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0410021501070.29802@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20041002053836.GN460@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5c389d3b041001211056012a3f@mail.gmail.com> <20041002053836.GN460@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [redirected to FreeBSD-questions; this is a technical issue] <snip> > You can also check out older versions and compare things; somewhere > there must be a tutorial. <snip> I've found Dave Plonka's tutorial to be most usefull. It's all over the place. A quick search pulls it up here for instance: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1184/sam9812a/ I'm one of those guys who is paranoid about forgetting how I did something or what I did to a machine, so I try to use RCS religiously for sys-admin details. Note from Plonka's document that it is a one-liner to see every file that has ever been tweaked over the life of the machine (assuming one used RCS for it.) There are some down-sides and hassles, but I think it's worth using RCS in many situations, and developing a basic understanding of how RCS works helps get around these issues. RCS is a relatively simple and understandable system. Thanks, - Tom
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