[UFO Chicago] experience using RCS?

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:
> hi
>
> I have lots of little programs I write for various day to day automation
> tasks.  I would like to version control them.  I want to do something
> better than v1 v2 etc.  But I do not want to setup a central repository
> that all items go into.  (The reason is that I am not collaborating with
> anyone where I would need it all in one place; I have my stuff scattered
> in a way I like it and don't want to think about a repo layout.)
>
> Would RCS work reasonably OK for this?  ISn't this type of usage what it
> was designed for?


RCS really only works within a single directory. If you want the most
bare bones dirt simple version control, use CVS or SVN. Or, consider
something really useful and modern like Mercurial.

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/lnut/ch14_01.htm <--- the basics
on RCS vs CVS

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W. Scott Lockwood III