My application is going to edit a bunch of large files, completely unrelated to each other (belonging to different users), and I need to store checkpoints of the previous state of the files. Delta ...

I have a 20-year-old project that I would like to migrate from RCS to git, without losing the history. All web pages suggest that the One True Path is through CVS. But after an hour of Googling and...

I am doing a whole bunch of conversions of CVS and RCS repositories into Subversion. Every now and then I run into a damaged ,v file. I have figured out how to repair these manually, but it's...

I noticed a default option in git core.repositoryFormatVersion which defaults to 0, but what are "repository format versions" and what functional difference do they make?

i am using subversion as RCS. Always when a new version of my project is finised i create a tag of it (copy of the trunk). Does anybody know how i can protect this tagged directory from being accid...

Let's say a project is: 1 product built over Y years comprising M modules written in L [1..3] languages developed by total of D developers At what point does a project contain too many or...

I'm looking at a doxygen code example and seeing the following. /** @file test.h @brief Define helper functions $Id: test.h,v 1.10 2012/10/10 10:10:10 author Exp $ */ Can anyone explain...

I keep seeing RCS and RCS Keywords while looking at svn and cvs. I don't know what RCS is and what the RCS Keywords are. They seem to be a feature but with no real explanation as to what they do. ...

I have to store two files A and B which are both very large (like 100GB). However B is likely to be similar in big parts to A so i could store A and diff(A, B). There are two interesting aspects to...

I currently use RCS' merge command to do 3-way merges, but one thing has always annoyed me about it. If I use the -A option, the same change made in both files shows up as a conflict: <<<&...

Frequently I come across the following statements in C/C++ source code: $Id: lzio.c,v 1.24 2003/03/20 16:00:56 roberto Exp $ $Id: file name, version, timestamp, creator Exp $ Have you got any i...