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People still use RCS?
by jng 13y ago
People still use RCS?
- geoka9 13y agoIt's handy if you want a quick and simple way to preserve the history of edits for a single file, for example. So instead of a .bak file you can have an RCS file.
- masklinn 13y agoYou could also have a DVCS repository just tracking this specific file.
- philh 13y agoI don't think you can have e.g. two files in the same directory tracked by separate git repos. (Obviously there are workarounds like putting each in a directory by themselves, or maybe you just don't care if you happen to keep both in the same repo. Or you can use RCS.)
- hibbelig 13y agoThat seems like overkill. See, most of the time I do "vim foo" to modify a file. But sometimes, on rare occasions, "echo bla > foo" seems to be a reasonable way to modify that file. That said, most of the files I've used that on were in /etc, so since etckeeper arrived I've pretty much stopped using RCS. But before I knew about etckeeper, it was nice.
- octagonal 13y agoWhy take a car to the neighbourhood store when a fit-for-purpose bike would work just as well, while being free of all the complexities that a car has?
- pekk 13y agobecause it actually isn't helping your health or the environment to use RCS, and actually isn't more complex to do with another tool.