From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Choosing a versioning system Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:50:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87bq4w2j9b.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> 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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206902211 26301 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 18:36:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rustom Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 20:37:22 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 1Jg2PA-0002v0-76 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2OY-0002zT-EI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:36:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2OG-0002xE-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2OE-0002vc-Va for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2OE-0002vN-Eo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg2OE-0007uR-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so486215nfh.26 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V/WKXsy/VpNhye80AygraqiNsage1a1oZKhAwhgmg/I=; b=pg6sthLOoWw46iUkaIGJVvv3EXI0+bVlgZLKpJyRJVZS4CxVnLzyZwc7vDnRW0qrnvvCRzoDjQPrGyN1q8YQOenE/scHxagis4a+B/vE7j7fbrX3octLYf8JBy2Gr5P0qPirx5Wcsh4BqlNMdLatcjvbgjdObxWt1kPzSg/yRm0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Gfe0/idbx6npmank1b2huMBP54xb7TrdGaDZBeNo9Cj9RTzDOR5dkts4RGUW2dt/rGp2xX9qnYNr57aSktCXYY4Rmi2h+Ro+rH8uWF4vOEMYXm9FOhJoVXxToni5W626YDx4P+zTO2bo7TtjJnQGDO98Ych2hwJEQMD1aZpgXBA= Original-Received: by 10.78.155.4 with SMTP id c4mr17923490hue.73.1206902180951; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from thievol.homelinux.org ( [77.197.77.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j10sm7444642mue.14.2008.03.30.11.36.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:36:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <89aaa431-b54b-4edd-9c55-adb87fb13afa@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (rustom's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:21:34 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:52853 Archived-At: rustom writes: > On Mar 29, 10:18=C2=A0pm, Mike Treseler wrote: >> B. T. Raven wrote: >> > Check out Menu>Tools>Version Control >> >> See also: >> >> Menu>Tools>Compare >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0-- 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! > This is a genuine question --- I'm familiar with many versioning > systems but not too good at any of them. > > So what do most emacs-ers use? > RCS is a very good version control system to start. It can only manage correctly single files and only localy. The others versions control systems are more complex but have of course much more features like managing big set of files over remote access. If you want to manage local files only, RCS is ok. It is very well integrated with vc (see emacs manuel) Personnaly, i use now mercurial with dvc, but also svn and for some local files rcs. --=20 A + Thierry Pub key: http://pgp.mit.edu