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From: mitch@Stride.COM (Thomas Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS
Message-ID: <804@stride.Stride.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 88 17:56:15 GMT
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Reply-To: mitch@stride.stride.com.UUCP (Thomas Mitchell)
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In article <1134@cod.NOSC.MIL> dberg@cod.NOSC.MIL (David I. Berg) writes:
>In article <710@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
>> Which out of RCS and SCCS do people prefer?  ..........
Voting  for RCS
>....  Another feature of RCS is that it stores the current
>version of your file and the changes backward to the original, ....

Because RCS stores the current version it is much quicker.  Also
When looking at files -- the current version is present and can
just be examined.  A little experimentation and the markers used
by RCS are easy to find and identify the start of the current
version.

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Thomas P. Mitchell (mitch@stride1.Stride.COM)
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