Re: [PLUG] Revision Control for the Rest of Us

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 11/16/2017 01:08 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> Excellent idea.  And while it's clear that git has largely prevailed
> over its competitors and predecessors, let me put in a word for RCS.
>
> RCS has been around a very long time.  It's very stable -- and very limited.
> There are all kinds of things it doesn't do, and of course, if you need to
> do those things, you probably shouldn't use it.
>
> But in its favor are two things: first, there are a lot of simple use
> cases that it handles beautifully.  Second, you can learn it in ten minutes.

<snip>

I covered RCS in the first edition of the _bash Cookbook_ but dropped it 
in the just released second edition because...while you are correct, for 
trivial use cases I think bzr or hg are just as simple and do a whole 
lot more.

But ESR not only agrees with you, he wrote SRC as a Python wrapper 
around RCS:
* http://www.catb.org/esr/src/
* http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7008
* http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6529
* FAQ: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6518	< Read this one
* New: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6502

Later,
JP
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