prolonging the emacs discussion

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:52:14 EST
"Price, Erik" said:


>BTW, is RCS similar to CVS or am I mixed up about these?

CVS is built upon RCS.  RCS is essentially good for very small groups 
numbering between 1 and 1.5 where there is *really* good 
communication.

CVS is much more geared toward larger groups and collaboration which 
usually requires remote development on disparate networks.

If you don't know CVS very well yet, you may be interested in 
learning Subversion instead:

	http://subversion.tigris.org/

It's meant to be the next-generation of CVS, is being developed by 
the current maintainers of CVS (Collab.net), and it's networking 
capabilities far exceed the poorly grafted on duct-tape which CVS 
uses.

I use both.  I use RCS for things like local files I just want basic 
revision control of.  I use CVS/Subversion for large collections of 
files which are related.  For example, here at work, the web site I'm 
builing is under Subversion, as is the FAI auto-install environment 
(er, well, not yet, but it will be :).  Files on my laptop, like my 
'daily-what-did-I-do-today' log is under RCS.

I hope that helps some.
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Seeya,
Paul
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