[NTLUG:Discuss] Comparison of CVS and SrcSafe

[cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org]

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:26:37 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Seth Daniel <seth at ti.com>  said:
> There's also Aegis.  I've never used it, but it is 
> ``GPL'd'' software.  Has anyone used it?  Is anyone actively
> using it?
> 
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/aegis.html
> 
> (There was a very interesting flamewar recently on the kernel-list
>  between Aegis and Bitkeeper.  The latest Kernel Traffic documents
>  it briefly.)

I'd put *big* bags of salt in on Bitkeeper.  One downside to it is
that unlike many of the others, it's reportedly only semi-free.

An interesting thing about Bitkeeper is that it is essentially
SCCS-based rather than being RCS-based (as the base data format).
This means that it includes an SCCS-compatible library as one of
its components.

Chris Cox is likely one of the NTLUGgers most competent to comment
on the comparative advantages of SCCS versus RCS...
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