[TriLUG] RCS

[Tanner Lovelace]

Yes, because with rcs you're supposed to check things out before modifying them.
Changing them to read only is it's way of "enforcing" this.

If you don't want to have to check them out beforehand, look into cvs
or subversion.
CVS uses the same file format as rcs, but is built around the concept
of "lazy locking".  It doesn't lock until the last possible minute, but you do
have to update from the repository before committing (which shouldn't
be a problem if you're the only user).  Subversion is a follow on to CVS that
has been completely redesigned from the ground up to offer all the features
CVS does, but fix the most obvious bugs (i.e. directory versioning, atomic 
commits, the ability to rename files, etc..).  Both are quite stable.

Cheers,
Tanner


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:44:09 -0500, H. Crissman
<hcrissman at secure-mind.net> wrote:
> I am relatively new to RCS. Is it supposed to change file permissions and make
> them read only? Here is what I have done so far.
> 
> 1. mkdir RCS in ~/scripts
> 2. ci -u -t-Baseline * (check in all my scripts)
> 3. rcs -U * (turn off file locking. I am the only one using this system)
> 
> Now files that were rwx-rwx-rx are r-xr-xr-x. That seems odd to me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> H. Crissman
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