RCS and SCCS

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Sat Jun 25 23:26:45 AEST 1988


In article <661 at pyuxe.UUCP> mayerar at pyuxe.UUCP (80132-A Mayer) writes:
>One good point of RCS is that it stores the most recent version and 
>uses deltas to get back to the previous versions.  SCCS stores the
>original version and uses deltas to get to the most recent version.

No, it doesn't.  I don't know who started this myth, but it's false.
SCCS makes one sequential pass to do a "get".



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