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Re: PCL-CVS vs RC-CVS


From: D. D. Brierton
Subject: Re: PCL-CVS vs RC-CVS
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:22:40 +0000
User-agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.)

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:57:03 +0000, jasonr wrote:

> "D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:
> 
>> The piece of the puzzle I am missing is what the differences are between
>> PCL-* and RC-* in Emacs.
> 
> Emacs does not contain rc-*, do you mean vc-* or are you using XEmacs
> or some add on package?

Yes, I'm sorry about that -- it was a typo brought on by the fact that I
was in the middle of reading the "Revision Control" (hence typing rc-*
instead of vc-*) chapter in the Emacs manual. I'm using Emacs (not XEmacs)
and I meant vc-*.

> PCL-CVS is a higher level interface that works on top of vc-cvs. It
> offers some CVS specific functionality in dired-like buffers, where
> vc-cvs offers generic version control functionality for CVS.

Thanks, that helps a bit.

Best, Darren

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