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Subject: Re: rcs is gone?
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On 2013-10-07, at 2:02 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

> I use ci/co every single day to track changes to individual config =
files on individual machines.  For simple things like ntp.conf, rc.conf, =
sysctl.conf, a simple 'ci -l xxx' is a trivial way to maintain local =
revision control.

And sorry, what I left out was how having ci/co in the base is immensely =
helpful with the installer scripts I write.  The server installation =
scripts I've cooked up use ci(1) to keep a record of changes made during =
the (possibly customized) installation process.  This is impossible if =
there isn't a basic RCS in the base system.