15 RCS (Version Control Systems Generally Available "Free)
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This article is from the Configuration Management Tools FAQ, by Dave Eaton dwe@arde.com with numerous contributions by others.
15 RCS (Version Control Systems Generally Available "Free)
RCS (Revision Control System) is often considered to be better than
SCCS. One reason for this is that RCS baselines the most recent
version and keeps deltas for earlier ones, making new development
faster. Additional discussions concerning SCCS vs RCS may be found in
the comp.unix.questions FAQ, section 7 at:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part7/
RCS still requires scripts to make life easier on the developer.
Originally created by Walter Tichy, RCS is still maintained by Purdue
(email to rcs-bugs@cs.purdue.edu). It is available on the GNU
distribution, has been widely ported, and is free.
RCS is available via anonymous FTP from
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/rcs/ and its mirror sites. Specific
ports have been found at:
site filename
wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/amiga/aminet/dev/misc/HWGRCS* (Amiga port)
systems/atari/umich.edu/Programming/rcs* (Atari port)
DOS and NT versions have been available at http://www.winsite.com/.
RCS works best with GNU diffutils 2.7; look for diffutils-2.7.tar.Z.
Many CASE tools interface with RCS.
The FSF offers a book (108 pgs.) and CD-ROM containing the DJGPP port
of GCC and many GNU utilities, including Diffutils and RCS. More
information can be found at: http://www.fsf.org/order/windows.html
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