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From: simpson@trwarcadia.uucp (Scott Simpson)
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Subject: Re: rcs for SysV
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Date: 15 Oct 89 20:15:16 GMT
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>In article <1367@celit.fps.com> billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
>+Does anyone know why Berkeley (or anyone in their right mind)
>+still uses SCCS?

I like SCCS because it has a "fix" command.  I don't recall there being
one in RCS.  But RCS has a $Log$ keyword which I like.  (The
interaction of these two features may be related.  How do you delete a
$Log$ entry when you need to do a "fix"?) Also, I understand that RCS
stores the last version of the file and deltas to previous versions,
while SCCS stores the first version and deltas from then onward.  Since
you usually check out the latest version of a file, RCS is probably a
little faster.
	Scott Simpson
	TRW Space and Defense Sector
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