[techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

[Eric R. Turner]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Julie wrote:

> From: <jenn at simegen.com>
> > Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> >
> >
> > >> Has anyone here actually tried using something like CVS to track /etc??
> > >
> > > I'm sure I was talking to someone who kept a lot of their configuration
> > > files in CVS. I shall track them down and find out what exactly it was.
> >
> > Dancer and I keep promising ourselves to. We're even about to
> > build our own CVS repository, for our respective work and home
> > programming foo to go into....
> 
> I used to use SCCS (to the point that when IBM legal asked me to
> prove I own Shadow I offered to bring in the SCCS files going back
> to 1987) all the time.  How does CVS compare to it?  Assume I have
> all kinds of neat toys for extracting entire "releases".

I haven't used SCCS... only CVS. You can indeed tag releases for later
extraction with CVS.

Eric


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