From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:59:11 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation fixes. X-Git-Tag: 0.9~18 X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a0fd830b0f9260e6e35e0397f1ba842b335b959;p=src.git Documentation fixes. --- diff --git a/FAQ.asc b/FAQ.asc index faeb1d1..707e0a0 100644 --- a/FAQ.asc +++ b/FAQ.asc @@ -78,14 +78,15 @@ two after it as announced, but not for projects like itself. == 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. [[beginners-vcs]] == Is SRC a good system on which to learn about version control? ==