RCS and SCCS

A Mayer mayerar at pyuxe.UUCP
Sat Jun 25 06:03:17 AEST 1988


In article <710 at ubu.warwick.UUCP> maujd at warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
>Which out of RCS and SCCS do people prefer?  I found rcs(1) by mistake
>in a manual page in our computer unit library - and I've found it very
>good.  What are the good and bad points of each system?
>
>Geoff.

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.

		Andrew J. Mayer
		BELLCORE

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