rcs (Revision Control System) tutorials, reference manuals

[Ronald S. Woan]

In article <712 at nixbur.UUCP>, jobrien at nixbur.UUCP (John O'Brien) writes:

> Our system is considering going to rcs (Revision Control System) for
> source code control.  The big problem at this point is that the only
> documentation we have at this point is the "man" pages, which are
> just a start, and don't really cover the concepts, details, or
> provide a tutorial.  Could somebody, anybody out there point me to
> some good doc- umentation on rcs?

The RCS source, that I pulled from one of the archives (probably
gatekeeper.dec.com) had a nice tutorial that I could probably send you
if you can't find it. A much shorter tutorial can be found in the BSD
4.3 Unix Programmer's Manual Supplementary Documents 1.

						Ron

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