Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!mjm!mjf From: mjf@mjm.mjm.com (Mark Fresolone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: RCS info wanted Message-ID: <910003@mjm.mjm.com> Date: 17 Mar 91 07:18:37 GMT References: Organization: Melillo Consulting, Somerset, NJ Lines: 18 One significant advantage that RCS has over SCCS is the ability to tag any version of a file with a "symbolic version" string. By tagging, say, all current versions of a set of files with the same "symbolic version" string one can essentially identify a "release". SCCS has no such feature, and thus is often accompanied by locally written scripts to extract all of the file versions which make up a configuration, store them away, and if they're good (and not so simple), retrieve them. There is also another similar feature in RCS that we use to identify internal configurations such as "last stable version", or "current unit test", called the RCS "state". While these two features alone don't qualify RCS as a full "configuration management" package, they are very useful, and are perhaps the most significant RCS advantage over SCCS. Mark Fresolone mjf@mjm.com, rutgers!mjm!mjf Melillo Consulting/MJM Software 908 873-0075/Fax 908 873-2250