petej@itcode.Eng.Sun.COM (Pete Jolly) (10/20/90)
I come from an environment that used RCS rather heavily and now I am forced (much to my disgust) to use SCCS for source archive control. I don't like SCCS because in my opinion it is too hard to get started with and doesn't offer the overall flexibility that RCS does. I will concede that it may be much more powerful for those large scale projects that have multiple programmers working on the same software. One such thing that I found missing is the ability to store source code revision history in the source file itself. RCS lets you do this by replacing a history variable with the history of the revisions. This allows you to place the history where you want it to go in the extracted version. SCCS has the "prs" option which allows you to print out the revision history on stdout but that, of course, is not in the original source. If someone has a copy of the source file and wants to know what the revision history is, they also need access to the SCCS files. Does anyone out there have any ideas on how to incorporate revision history into SCCS source files?? Thanks in advance, Pete Jolly.