From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 17 11:10:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F2A16A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:10:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nuumen.pair.com (nuumen.pair.com [209.68.1.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EB9A43D48 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:10:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thuppi@nuumen.pair.com) Received: (qmail 32482 invoked by uid 55300); 17 Dec 2004 11:10:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:10:55 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi X-X-Sender: thuppi@nuumen.pair.com To: Xinizul Xinizul In-Reply-To: <4d073056041217005126375bda@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4d073056041217005126375bda@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RCS utility X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:10:56 -0000 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.