== I still use plain RCS for single files. Why move to SRC? ==
Because process friction matters, even to hackers as ancient as
-you and the author of RCS. Bare RCS's interface is pretty awful;
+you and the author of SRC. Bare RCS's interface is pretty awful;
a competently-designed UI can reduce that friction considerably.
Try it and see.
If you use RCS through Emacs's VC mode, you already have a pretty
-good wrapper around it...which, as it happens, the author of RCS
+good wrapper around it...which, as it happens, the author of SRC
also wrote. SRC has a couple of advantages over VC-RCS - running
-lockless and better scriptability are the main ones.
+lockless, better scriptability, and ditching RCS's awful revision
+numbering are the main ones.
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== Is SRC a good system on which to learn about version control? ==