SPUG: Version control white paper

Matthew.Bustad mbustad at Myrio.com
Thu Oct 25 11:20:34 CDT 2001


CVS no longer uses RCS but has the code built in.
If there is only one file to track, I would recomment RCS.
For multiple file projects take a look at subversion:

 http://subversion.tigris.org/

There should be a perl modual that works with RCS.

-Matthew.Bustad

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, James Moore wrote:

> CVS doesn't actually do versioning, which is why you may be having a
> problem.  It's just a wrapper around another versioning system, almost
> always RCS, but I think it can be configured to use SCCS or just about
> anything else.  
> 
> CVS exists to put directory structures around files under version
> control.  CVS runs RCS ommands to track file versions.  RCS itself
> doesn't know anything about things at the level of abstraction of a CVS
> project or even a directory; it only knows about single files.
> 
> - James 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spug-list at pm.org [mailto:owner-spug-list at pm.org] On Behalf
> Of Peter Darley
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:30 AM
> To: SPUG
> Subject: SPUG: Version control white paper
> 
> Friends,
> 	I'm putting together a system with perl/postgresql that will
> need to have a
> good mechanism for maintaining multiple versions of database objects,
> which
> is something that is quite new to me.  I have been searching the net to
> find
> a white paper explaining the inner workings of CVS, without describing
> the
> actual code implementation, and have drawn a blank.  I was hoping that
> someone on this list could point me to such a thing, or to any white
> paper/algorithm discussion of other version control systems.
> 	I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this forum, and if not,
> I
> apologize.
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley
> 
> 
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