Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!news.larc.nasa.gov!rehder.larc.nasa.gov!smd From: smd@rehder.larc.nasa.gov (Steve Dahmen) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Multi Site RCS Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 14:56:42 GMT References: <1991May3.142232.9405@searchtech.com> <247@wimpy.nms.gdc.portal.com> Sender: news@news.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: bergquis@nms.gdc.portal.com's message of 7 May 91 12:18:28 GMT mra@searchtech.com (Michael Almond) writes: > We are currently in a situation where we are doing software develop here > at our lab. This software is then taken to another lab to be integrated with > other systems while development continues here. > > Does anyone know of any set of procedures or utilities for doing multi-site > revision control? > > We are currently using RCS. > You may also want to look into the Multi-Site Development RCS package written by some folks at TRW and presented at USENIX Winter 1990. The paper is included in the proceedings. Unfortunately, I don't have access right now to the proceedings for further data. My apologies to the two people whose names escape me! I have also written a beta version of a large-project interface into RCS, called LARCS. We are doing some multi-site development, but not the way described by the TRW project. They had it set up to have a complete set of files at each development site, with parallel development going on. In LARCS, everything is (alas) still serial, but via NFS one can mount a development partition which allows users to do development work, ie check in and checkout files from the master machine. Obviously, this works for local networks, but might become cumbersome over long distances. Let me know if you are interested in LARCS, and I can send you the manpage which has a pretty good description of capabilities. -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Steve Dahmen, Systems Analyst (804) 864-4519 (W) Vigyan Research, Inc .- NASA Langley Research Center Internet: smd@rehder.larc.nasa.gov