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

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 11/16/2017 02:50 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 01:50:56PM -0500, JP Vossen wrote:
> > But ESR not only agrees with you, he wrote SRC as a Python wrapper around
> > RCS:
>
> That is way cool, and I very much appreciate that you pointed it
> out. Have bookmarked and will read all of those when fresh coffee is
> available.
Happy to help.  It's quite neat, just not quite what I need.


> Oh, and you're right that hg/bzr have more features and are probably
> better choices for the same kind of use cases.  I use RCS mostly out of
> old habit: I was working at Purdue when Walter Tichy wrote it, and it
> had the singular virtue of not being SCCS. ;)

I never used SCCS, I started with RCS, and "centralized" it by having 
the RCS (or whatever) dir be a symlink someplace else.  CVS was "better" 
in some ways, but it really sucked (in retrospect) in a lot of other 
ways.  SVN isn't bad, but it's really, REALLY odd.  I appreciate 
$Keyword$ expansion and the ability to check out only part of the repo 
though.  The 3rd gen DVCS are all pretty similar, the devil is in the 
details.

Later,
JP
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