From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SCCS
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:28:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0231faa-8ad9-fa51-4b24-9854beb21210@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190912034346.GJ2046@mcvoy.com>
I used both RCS and SCCS in the early days (e.g. 1985 - 1991). RCS was
what we used at Britton-Lee in the group that Eric Allman was part of.
SCCS is what we used at Sybase as it was gaining popularity. This was
so long ago that I don't remember all the details but I found that
RCS was much easier to use, especially in an environment that didn't
do much merging. Instead we used labels (or tags, I forget what they
were called) to mark which files were part of which release. Doing
this was much harder in SCCS, which contributed to the mess that
was Sybase software engineering.
Of course, all this could be explained by Eric's deep knowledge
of RCS, and the lack of somebody with Eric's knowledge at Sybase.
But, to me, an early adopter of source code control who wasn't
overly interested in speed, RCS was much easier to use.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-12 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-09 6:25 [TUHS] PWB vs Unix/TS Warner Losh
2019-09-09 6:36 ` arnold
2019-09-10 15:16 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 0:28 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 3:53 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-11 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 16:55 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was " Charles H Sauer
2019-09-12 19:31 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-09-12 20:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-12 21:09 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses - Series/1 NUXI Ronald Natalie
2019-09-12 21:31 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS Warner Losh
2019-09-12 22:30 ` jcs
2019-09-12 23:12 ` reed
2019-09-12 23:22 ` jcs
2019-09-12 23:29 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses Warren Toomey
2019-09-13 7:06 ` arnold
2019-09-13 8:30 ` SPC
2019-09-14 18:29 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-12 21:29 ` [TUHS] IBM Unix source licenses [was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS Charles H Sauer
2019-09-11 17:49 ` [TUHS] " Richard Salz
2019-09-11 17:52 ` ron
2019-09-11 21:44 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 18:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 18:18 ` Richard Salz
2019-09-11 18:54 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-11 21:05 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 21:34 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-11 21:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 22:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-11 21:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 21:50 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-11 22:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12 3:43 ` [TUHS] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 4:20 ` George Michaelson
2019-09-12 4:31 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 13:44 ` Tony Finch
2019-09-13 4:11 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 5:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13 8:00 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-09-13 15:23 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-12 4:28 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2019-09-12 4:33 ` [TUHS] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-12 6:12 ` William Corcoran
2019-09-12 14:35 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-13 5:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-13 5:50 ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-12 16:45 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-12 17:29 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-12 17:47 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-13 8:12 ` emanuel stiebler
2019-09-13 21:11 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 21:17 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-13 21:48 ` Bakul Shah
2019-09-13 23:12 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-13 23:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-14 1:55 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] SCCS Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 17:23 ` [TUHS] SCCS Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-16 20:31 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-17 17:57 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-18 8:48 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-18 17:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-09-12 20:07 ` Nemo
2019-09-11 16:05 ` [TUHS] PWB vs Unix/TS Paul Winalski
2019-09-11 17:14 ` ron
2019-09-14 0:44 ` [TUHS] a book (was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS) reed
2019-09-14 2:53 ` Warner Losh
2019-09-15 2:18 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 2:39 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 3:24 ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-14 22:46 ` Clem cole
2019-09-15 0:58 ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-15 3:30 ` Eric Allman
2019-09-15 4:21 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-15 5:17 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 20:14 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 20:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-15 20:12 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-15 21:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-15 23:27 ` Clem cole
2019-09-15 23:45 ` Richard Salz
2019-09-15 7:43 ` Andy Kosela
2019-09-12 4:25 [TUHS] SCCS Jon Steinhart
2019-09-13 21:37 Norman Wilson
2019-09-13 21:51 ` Larry McVoy
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