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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.
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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".