Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pacbell!att!mtunx!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuhk!mhuxo!ulysses!gamma!pyuxp!pyuxe!mayerar From: mayerar@pyuxe.UUCP (A Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS Message-ID: <661@pyuxe.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 20:03:17 GMT References: <890@fig.bbn.com> <710@ubu.warwick.UUCP> Reply-To: mayerar@pyuxe.UUCP (80132-A Mayer) Organization: Bell Communications Research Lines: 15 In article <710@ubu.warwick.UUCP> maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes: >Which out of RCS and SCCS do people prefer? I found rcs(1) by mistake >in a manual page in our computer unit library - and I've found it very >good. What are the good and bad points of each system? > >Geoff. 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. Andrew J. Mayer BELLCORE {ariel,burl,clyde,floyd,gamma,harpo,ihnp4,mhuxl,rutgers}!pyuxe!mayerar