From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Make CVS default revision controller Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:26:45 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84smr780ju.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <5l7k8mnf2o.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84he7nuzww.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87he7ndpyx.fsf@kruhft.vc.shawcable.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053617987 29839 80.91.224.249 (22 May 2003 15:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 22 17:39:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Is99-0007cN-00 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 17:38:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Is1M-0007AV-Hf for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 May 2003 11:30:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1053617223 232793 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z/3cGlUIf7dnqvpwWPYi4b+QQOQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113547 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10040 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10040 Burton Samograd writes: > I would reccomend just using RCS if you want that. CVS is a bit picky > sometimes and RCS offers most of the same features (CVS was built off > of RCS initially). Instead of storing in CVSROOT it just puts the > version files in ./RCS directories, and provides full merging, version > diffing, branching, etc. Don't throw away old tools just so you can > use trendy software when won't even need 10% of the features it > provides. FWIW, I use CVS for my config files. Then it is very easy to use them on different machines. I love it. But I use the symlink trick. I wrote a Makefile that creates all the necessary symlinks, and I use "make install" from time to time whenever I think that the symlinks should be corrected. -- This line is not blank.