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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: request opinions on RCS vs CVS
Date: 30 May 1997 15:38:27 GMT
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In article <338E2431.533E@synet.net>,
JD Thomlinson <jthom@synet.net> writes:
> I'd appreciate anyone's comments on the merits of RCS vs CVS,
> or if you prefer CVS over RCS. I'm going to install one or the other.
>
> Faster? Less disk space? Easier to split/join branches? Etc?
$ man cvs
CVS(1) CVS(1)
NAME
cvs - Concurrent Versions System
SYNOPSIS
cvs [ cvs_options ]
cvs_command [ command_options ] [ command_args ]
DESCRIPTION
cvs is a front end to the rcs(1) revision control system
[.....]
Therefore, cvs is slower, uses more disk space but is a lot easier
to use.
> Thanks in Advance, JohnT
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