PCL-CVS vs RC-CVS

PCL-CVS vs RC-CVS

[D. D. Brierton]

I'm trying to learn how to use revision control systems properly from
within Emacs. In particular I'm trying to learn how to use Subversion from
within Emacs. I've discovered psvn.el which is an SVN equivalent for
PCL-CVS, and rc-svn.el which is an SVN backend for RC. I've got the Emacs
Manual open in Info on the Version Control chapter, and I've found the
online Subversion book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.

The piece of the puzzle I am missing is what the differences are between
PCL-* and RC-* in Emacs. I can see that they offer different
functionality: it looks to me like RC-* is for actually working on
particular files in an RC system, whereas PCL-* is more for browsing an RC
system. Is that correct? Could someone offer a concise and definitive
account of what these two systems in Emacs (PCL-* and RC-*) are for to an
RCS newbie?

TIA.

Best, Darren

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Re: PCL-CVS vs RC-CVS

[Jason Rumney]

"D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:

> The piece of the puzzle I am missing is what the differences are between
> PCL-* and RC-* in Emacs.

Emacs does not contain rc-*, do you mean vc-* or are you using XEmacs
or some add on package?

PCL-CVS is a higher level interface that works on top of vc-cvs. It
offers some CVS specific functionality in dired-like buffers, where
vc-cvs offers generic version control functionality for CVS.

Re: PCL-CVS vs RC-CVS

[D. D. Brierton]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:57:03 +0000, jasonr wrote:

> "D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:
> 
>> The piece of the puzzle I am missing is what the differences are between
>> PCL-* and RC-* in Emacs.
> 
> Emacs does not contain rc-*, do you mean vc-* or are you using XEmacs
> or some add on package?

Yes, I'm sorry about that -- it was a typo brought on by the fact that I
was in the middle of reading the "Revision Control" (hence typing rc-*
instead of vc-*) chapter in the Emacs manual. I'm using Emacs (not XEmacs)
and I meant vc-*.

> PCL-CVS is a higher level interface that works on top of vc-cvs. It
> offers some CVS specific functionality in dired-like buffers, where
> vc-cvs offers generic version control functionality for CVS.

Thanks, that helps a bit.

Best, Darren

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