Re: Choosing a versioning system

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 29, 10:18 pm, Mike Treseler <mike_trese...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> B. T. Raven wrote:
>> > Check out Menu>Tools>Version Control
>>
>> See also:
>>
>> Menu>Tools>Compare
>>
>>      -- Mike Treseler
>
> 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??
> My impression is that rcs was superseded by cvs by svn by.. well... a
> lot of competition!

I used RCS for a while until I understood the concepts, so I recommend
it.  I use SVN now, but that's for my projects, my single-file projects
(e.g. awk/sh scripts and some elisp) is still in RCS.  SVN can be
overkill for single files.  Besides, it still works ;)

Joel

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