[Tutor] Off Topic: Revision control system

[Nick Lunt]

Never used VMS, but our company has just bought an OpenVME box. Im
already having nightmares about it ... ;)

Also, doesn't vi create a filename.py~ when a file is edited ? I've not
looked into it but maybe that can be extended to filename.py~~,
filename.py~~~ (ha) etc.

Cheers
Nick.


On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 01:47, R. Alan Monroe wrote:
> >> vi testfile.py
> >> ./testfile.py
> >> cp testfile.py testfile2.py
> >> vi testfile2.py
> >> ./testfile2.py
> >> cp testfile2.py testfile3.py
> >> vi testfile3.py
> >> etc
> >> 
> >> I keep copying so I don't destroy something that works.
> >> 
> >> Now my question is, do you folks use any sort of revision control system
> >> on linux ? I've had a look at CVS and RCS but both seem a bit over the
> >> top for my needs.
> 
> Makes you wish for the good old VMS way of life. For those that
> haven't used it, when you save with the same filename, the filesystem
> automatically makes file.py;1, file.py;2, etc. You could set the
> number of versions to keep (I think) per directory.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
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