Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20040710170931.69895.qmail@web50306.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:09:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Heintze Subject: Options for Source Code Control: RCS v. SCCS v. CVS To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <20040710043411.50483.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes I need some help understanding how RCS works. I typed "info RCS" and felt confused. Is RCS like CVS in the sense that one runs a un*x deamon or windows service on a remote node and legions of programmers use a client implemented with sockets or pipes. If so, (1) how do I start the service or deamon for RCS? (2) does RCS lock out other programmers while one works on a file or is RCS like CVS and everyone merges their differences later? Does cygwin include the CVS windows service? If so, how do I start it up? Can I assume that the CVS I see in the cygwin documentation is the origional CVS ported to windows and not CVSNT? Are RCS and CVS the only open source programs for source code control? What is SCCS? I believe that is a propietary program and not avialable as open source. How does one decide between using RCS and CVS? Are they very similar? Thanks, Siegfried __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/