Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS Message-ID: <8158@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 25 Jun 88 13:26:45 GMT References: <890@fig.bbn.com> <710@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <661@pyuxe.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <661@pyuxe.UUCP> mayerar@pyuxe.UUCP (80132-A Mayer) writes: >One good point of RCS is that it stores the most recent version and >uses deltas to get back to the previous versions. SCCS stores the >original version and uses deltas to get to the most recent version. No, it doesn't. I don't know who started this myth, but it's false. SCCS makes one sequential pass to do a "get".