[geeks] revision control

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 20:35, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> OK, once again I went ripping through a project, making changes for 4 hours
> without doing any recompiles during that time.  As you might imagine, things
> were seriously broken.  In fact, I actually did this over a week ago, and this
> is how long it has taken me to get it fixed, poking at it an hour or 3 a 
> night.
> 
> So, I'm thinking that a revision control system would be a good idea. 
> Something that I can check every increment that compiles back into, or check
> in nightly, or something.  So, what do people suggest?  A full blown CVS 
> server for little ol' me?  Something else like RCS or SCCS?  I don't really
> know anything about anything outside of using CVS as a client (and knowing
> that CVS checkins only take a chord in emacs).

CVS is trivial to set up for personal use.  It sucks, but it's better
than any available alternative, for any platform.  I think there's a
HOWTO, and there's certainly a semi-comprehensive info book.
	Greg

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