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• Good times for VCS' (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981)

  You won't regret learning git. It's a fine solution to the problem of version control. But, we are blessed at the moment with many good version control tools. For all the complaints, subversion does work well. Mercurial is in heavy use by Sun for Solaris, OpenJDK, etc. Ubuntu are investing heavily in bzr. There's a lot of choice out there, and they're all pretty good (when compared to CVS, RCS and SCCS which came before).
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    by Aristotle (5147)

    Actually, for all its primitivity, SCCS wasn’t on the wrong track, at least according to the information I could find about how it worked.

    Even RCS is OK for single-user tracking of a handful of files in one directory. That may not sound like much – but it gets two things right: local repository instead of a server; and zero overhead for setting up a repository (not even a foo init). If someone wrote decent merging and push/pull support for it, it would actually not be bad at all.

    CVS is where
    • Re:Good times for VCS' (Score:1)

      by chromatic (983) on 2008.02.12 0:32 (#61028) Homepage Journal

      If I understand correctly, SCCS was one of the major inspirations for BitKeeper, as it was a major part of TeamWare.

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      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Aristotle (5147)

        Yeah; this is the sort of fragmentary hint about SCCS of which I’ve picked up a couple, which lead me to say that my understanding is it was decent, if comparatively primitive. But I can’t say any more than that since I haven’t seen any substantial exposition of how it worked.