From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 16:14:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0219037B5E1 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12cETo-0001mc-00; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 22:33:52 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12cETo-000Lyn-00; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 22:33:52 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:33:51 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Gary Kline Cc: "Ryugen C. Fisher" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $CVSROOT Message-ID: <20000403223351.J85754@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000403162903.D85754@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000403130735.B16699@athena.sea.tera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000403130735.B16699@athena.sea.tera.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Kline wrote: > CVSROOT is the name that the cvs utility uses to store its > main data files and the RCS ,v files. Often, CVS uses > the directory /home//cvsroot for the user . > > CVS and RCS are worth understanding if you are doing serious > project development. RCS is primarily for the signle user or > a very few users/developers; CVS (which uses RCS) is for more > widely distributed projects. I use CVS even for my single user stuff, since I find it much more convenient than RCS last time I looked. Perhaps I just didn't learn RCS well enough though. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message