On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
| However, with SVN I have not got thee.g. in RCS or SCCS i just have to declare a
| hang of it to my satisfaction.
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Could you please elaborate?
How do I maintain the functionality of RCS?
---where I have my repository. Lot of my users install only the binary. RCS
| 2. When I check out a code, I have the code with all the comments
| regarding the changes and It helps a lot when fixing a BUG or adding
new
| features.
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Usually 'log' option will give history of the commits.
I am not interested in the log. The log can be used only on the system
---executable and using a command like /usr/bin/ident allows me to see that.
| 3. I also maintain identification in the source code which goes inside
| the final binary. In SCCS I used the 'what' command. In RCS I use the
ident
| command.
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What are you referring to as 'identification' here? Are you referring
to a 'snapshot' of the project? You can 'tag' at any particular time
during your development or release cycle.
identification refers to the '$Id keyword' which is present in the
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
If you want distributed VCS, you can look at mercurial or git.
Mercurial handbook:
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
Git SCM:
http://git-scm.com/
Thanks for the above links. I am right now reading git.