RCS vs. SCCS

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2265 at tellab5.tellabs.com> segel at tellab5.UUCP (Mike Segel) writes:
>   SCCS uses forward deltas. This means that when you "check in"
>   a piece of code, the original is stored, and the later copies
>   are really deltas based on the original.

This is another "urban myth".  In fact SCCS does stores deltas in such
a fashion that any revision can be extracted from the archive in a
single sequential pass.