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Re: CALL FOR LINUX INSTRUCTORS

Curt Sampson
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:13:00 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Dave Michelson wrote:

> > RCS is of very limited utility; I'd suggest covering CVS. RCS is
> > not helpful for projects with more than one person working on them,
> > or more than one directory full of files.
>
> Well, I'll accept that you find CVS more to your liking. I've worked on
> multi-person projects using RCS and had few complaints. In fact, without
> RCS, they would have been nightmarish.

Sure. Just like using ed instead of cat to edit files keeps the
editing from being nightmarish. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't
have been using a visual editor all along.

Keep in mind that RCS and CVS are not the same sort of tool. RCS
has no directory control, no network support, and falls apart if
you have more than a very few developers actually modifying the
tree.

I've used both RCS and CVS extensively (I've even used SCCS), and
I've worked on projects ranging from just one developer and a few
source files to 50,000 files and 60+ developers. While I find RCS
useful for maintaining configuration files, I would never use it
for software development.

I'd be happy to discuss and give a demonstration of CVS at some
point.

cjs

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