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Subject: Re: rcs
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On Oct 10, 2013 11:54 AM, "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 10 October 2013 19:15, Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 10, 2013 9:38 AM, "Julian Elischer" <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> > well since people expect RCS.. it is not a no brainer.
>> > you are asking people to learn  a whole new tool  for functionality
that
>> is currently very simple..
>> > edit file
>> > ci -l file
>> >     add comment.
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>> Such is the price of progress. I envy people who don't have to learn
>> anything new in order to stay employed  :-)
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> So your definition of progress is "doing more work to achieve the same
result"?..

That would only be true if they were equivalent, and we didn't care about
the extra features. You may not, but many people do, as the popularity of
git and other distributed version control systems proves.

Jos

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> --
> Igor M.