[kwlug-disc] rcs (git?) integration/prevalence? [Was: CSS: varying colours based on inheritance]

Darcy Casselman dscassel at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 11:14:58 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:46 PM, John Johnson <jvj at golden.net> wrote:
> On 2011-07-08 11:54, unsolicited wrote:
>>
>> Isn't one of the long time pros of rcs, though, the minimal storage
>> keeping revisions take?
>
> My point is that minimizing storage space should not be a primary goal of an
> rcs.

Guys, you really gotta stop using "rcs" as a generic term for Version
Control Systems (or VCSes).  You're giving me fever dreams from the
early 90s.

(cf. http://www.gnu.org/s/rcs/ )

Darcy.
(Actually kinda surprised it's not in Ubuntu's main anymore...)
(Also, bzr ftw!)




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