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

[Julie]

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".

-- Juile.