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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rcs for SysV
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Date: 16 Oct 89 14:29:31 GMT
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> I understand that RCS
>stores the last version of the file and deltas to previous versions,
This is correct.  It means that to get old versions lots of work
has to be done (and you can just about forget about branches :-).

>while SCCS stores the first version and deltas from then onward.
This is WRONG.  It's an urban legend.  SCCS stores diffs, and flags
indicating whether those diffs are present in a particular edit
or not.  This means that to get ANY SCCS version the amount of time
needed will be the same.
	/r$
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