From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Choosing a versioning system (was My dream work log:) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <89aaa431-b54b-4edd-9c55-adb87fb13afa@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <0fadnf78Nt8kvHDanZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <657buvF2ep4flU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206898850 14548 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 17:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:40:50 +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 19:41:22 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 1Jg1Wt-0001pk-On for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg1WH-0000PZ-W7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.2.85 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1206897694 496 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2008 17:21:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.2.85; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020513 Firefox/3.0b3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157482 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:52852 Archived-At: On Mar 29, 10:18=A0pm, Mike Treseler wrote: > B. T. Raven wrote: > > Check out Menu>Tools>Version Control > > See also: > > Menu>Tools>Compare > > =A0 =A0 =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?