My dream work log:

One fine morning I do this:

1. I open a "file.txt" in emacs
2. I modify it, say in line 4, I change "this-thing" to "that-thing"
3. save the file
4. again, going back to the same line 4, i change "that-thing" to
"something"
5. save the file
6. exit

Albert wrote:

Albert gmail.com> writes:

Thank you Raven and Thierry.
I didn't know about this version control.

Thank you very much.

B. T. Raven wrote:

See also:

-- Mike Treseler

On Mar 29, 10:18 pm, Mike Treseler comcast.net> wrote:

Out of curiosity I did this and found that the default version control
system that gets invoked is rcs.
I wonder if this (default) is the best advice to a noob??
My impression is that rcs was superseded by cvs by svn by.. well... a
lot of competition!
This is a genuine question

rustom wrote:

I use rcs for my own casual use and svn for group projects.
rcs requires no setup and is well integrated into emacs.
For svn, I am using kdesvn, which worked so well out of the box
that I have not yet explored the various emacs interfaces.

-- Mike Treseler

rustom gmail.com> writes:

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:21:34AM -0700, rustom wrote:

This is a good choice if all you want to control is a single file (or
a collection of unrelated files). Great for keeping track of changes
to configuration files.

These make sense when you have a "project" -- a collection of related
files under directory hierarchy.

This is my understanding:

CVS is good but has a few flaws. Don't use it for new projects.

SVN (subversion) is a successor to CVS with the flaws fixed and new
features added. I've started using it recently and it seems to be
just great.

On Mar 30, 11:59 pm, Oleg Katsitadze gmail.com> wrote:

Yes that is my impression also.
What your reply suggests however is that we are seeing a cycle of
simple-complex-simple:
rcs -- simple (no server)
cvs,svn -- more complex because needs centralized server
modern distributed ones -- once again no need for server but with the
lock model replaced with the merge model (see
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.basic.vsn-models.html )

And so I was wondering if these systems give the best of all worlds?