From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Treseler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Choosing a versioning system (was My dream work log:) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:32:10 -0700 Message-ID: <65a4laF2d9sleU1@mid.individual.net> References: <0fadnf78Nt8kvHDanZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <657buvF2ep4flU1@mid.individual.net> <89aaa431-b54b-4edd-9c55-adb87fb13afa@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206902720 27940 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 18:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:45:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 20:45:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jg2XP-0005Hl-IQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:45:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2Wn-0008FM-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:45:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Trace: individual.net eBblKfFrYLSG70ovQSV3swANWBfmKcNdrRkS7rWHhLlxsO/Mo0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AfzKDzIdF44KLYlozM43ZgZchFM= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: <89aaa431-b54b-4edd-9c55-adb87fb13afa@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157488 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52857 Archived-At: rustom wrote: > Out of curiosity I did this and found that the default version control > system that gets invoked is rcs. > I wonder if this (default) is the best advice to a noob?? I use rcs for my own casual use and svn for group projects. rcs requires no setup and is well integrated into emacs. For svn, I am using kdesvn, which worked so well out of the box that I have not yet explored the various emacs interfaces. -- Mike Treseler