wok annotate rcs/description.txt @ rev 25263
updated rcs (5.9.4 -> 5.10.1)
| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Fri Jul 15 08:53:15 2022 +0100 (2022-07-15) |
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| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 1 The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple revisions of files. |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 2 RCS automates the storing, retrieval, logging, identification, and merging |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 3 of revisions. |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 4 RCS is useful for text that is revised frequently, including source code, |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 5 programs, documentation, graphics, papers, and form letters. |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 6 |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 7 RCS was first developed by Walter F. Tichy at Purdue University in the early |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 8 1980s -- paper: RCS: A System for Version Control (1991) (troff, PostScript, PDF). |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 9 See also the Purdue RCS Homepage. |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 10 |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 11 RCS design is an improvement from its predecessor Source Code Control System (SCCS) |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 12 (see GNU CSSC). |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 13 The improvements include an easier user interface and improved storage of versions |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 14 for faster retrieval. |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 15 RCS improves performance by storing an entire copy of the most recent version and |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 16 then stores reverse differences (called "deltas"). |
| Hans-G?nter@25263 | 17 RCS uses GNU Diffutils to find the differences between versions. |