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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: rcs (Revision Control System) tutorials, reference manuals
Keywords: Revision Control System, source control, documentation
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Date: 11 Dec 89 15:56:07 GMT
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In article <712@nixbur.UUCP>, jobrien@nixbur.UUCP (John O'Brien) writes:

> Our system is considering going to rcs (Revision Control System) for
> source code control.  The big problem at this point is that the only
> documentation we have at this point is the "man" pages, which are
> just a start, and don't really cover the concepts, details, or
> provide a tutorial.  Could somebody, anybody out there point me to
> some good doc- umentation on rcs?

The RCS source, that I pulled from one of the archives (probably
gatekeeper.dec.com) had a nice tutorial that I could probably send you
if you can't find it. A much shorter tutorial can be found in the BSD
4.3 Unix Programmer's Manual Supplementary Documents 1.

						Ron

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