Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:24:38 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RCS utility Message-ID: <41C2FA36.1000406@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20041217123049.GA11503@nic.fr> References: <4d073056041217005126375bda@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0412170537130.27664@nuumen.pair.com> <20041217123049.GA11503@nic.fr>
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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:10:55AM -0500, > Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> wrote > a message of 44 lines which said: > > > >>If you think RCS is cool for general text file maintanence, you >>really should consider CVS as well. >> >> > >CVS was fine but, if you start now, it may be a better idea to use a >more modern tool such as Subversion (for centralized service) or arch >or darcs (for decentralized service). > >See devel/subversion, devel/darcs and devel/arch. > > > > I have to agree, Subversion (SVN) is made by the same people that made CVS, they recommend SVN for all "new" installs. But also though, where talking about RCS which is meant for small scale projects, so RCS is is not in the same class as CVS and SVN, apples and oranges. Also you can run SVN on a standalone windows box and use TortoiseSVN (windows explorer shell extension) to emulate a simple version management system like RCS
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