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Re: RFC: DOCPATCH: History of version control systems

From: Ketil Z Malde <ketil_at_ii.uib.no>
Date: 2002-11-08 20:47:10 CET

kbrannen@gte.net writes:

>> [RCS incorporated the]
>>>+ branching features of SCCS, and introduced the ability for multiple
>>>+ developers to work on the same programming project at the same
>>>+ time.</para>

>> So I guess SCCS subsequently borrowed this back from RCS, then?

> Nope. While SCCS used the locking model by default, you could turn
> that off.

Uh - how is that different from RCS? Doesn't RCS also use locking for
multiple developers? I thought you needed CVS for concurrent versions
(and thus the name)?

-kzm

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