Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:10:55 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: Xinizul Xinizul <xinizul@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RCS utility Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0412170537130.27664@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <4d073056041217005126375bda@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d073056041217005126375bda@mail.gmail.com>
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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
> Type "man rcsintro" from the shell or look for this subject in your
> prefferred search tool.
>
> Xinizul.
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