From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 10:22:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4B916A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:22:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3EDA43D3F for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:22:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) Sender: dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu References: <000801c3d3a7$c2d08330$6a01a8c0@tacstation> From: Dan Pelleg In-Reply-To: <000801c3d3a7$c2d08330$6a01a8c0@tacstation> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Date: 05 Jan 2004 13:22:20 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: RCS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:22:51 -0000 "Shawn Guillemette" writes: > Once apon a time I worked for a company that had used somthing called "RCS" to protect files from being writen to by more then one user at the same time. > > > > Im now in a situation where that would become helpful. I have read the man pages on RCS and looked for documantation on the web including the FreeBSD diary site and wanted to post to you all to see if anyone had any links to some good documentation on this. Even how-to's would be great. > > Thanks > > Shawn Nowadays most people use CVS, which can be thought of as a wrapper to RCS (and actually was implemented this way at first IIRC). It does not have exclusive locking like RCS does, but for most scenarios this is not a problem. If the way it handles conflicts is acceptable to you, this would be a good resource to learn about it: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ -- Dan Pelleg