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From: baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: RCS -vs- SCCS (was Re: rcs for SysV)
Message-ID: <77@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 07:05:49 GMT
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Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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After seeing the discussion here, I am still somewhat confused.

What I would like to know is why RCS/SCCS is better than SCCS/RCS.

I personally use SCCS because:

1) It runs on all UNIX machines (that I use)
2) It has a nice user interface (except on System V, but a simple Korn Shell
	script emulating the Berkely interface fixed that)
3) It is integrated with Make(1)
4) I am familiar with it and trust it (this is not unimportant since SCCS has
	saved me in that past)

However, RCS has a devoted following including people I respect a lot.

Why do you use RCS, and why should I also use it?  I would love to be
convinced.  RCS source is publicly available and SCCS is not.  That is a
very good reason to switch, but not enough.

(I have RCS compiled and running on my System V box at home, and at work, but
have never used it to configuration manage anything important).


steve	(baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM)