Objectives
After completing this tutorial, you will be able to:
- Understand the purpose of a version control software
- Know a little about the history of version control tools
- Understand the workings of RCS
- Be able to use RCS in a project framework
Before starting this tutorial, you should:
- Have access to a machine where you can read this tutorial in Netscape
in one window while working with the hands-on demonstrations in
another window. The HP 715 machines of the Cobra cluster (the
"Snakes") are ideal.
- Read the Conceptual Overview frame of this tutorial page.
- Generally know your way around the basics of the UNIX shell environment
and be able to use the RCS tools under a UNIX shell. The examples
of this tutorial
were developed using tcsh under HP-UX on the Cobra cluster, but any
machine supporting the basic RCS tools should do.
- Be able to use a text editor to create simple files on whatever system
you use this tutorial on. The Cobra machines may or may not have a
useable copy of
pico
, so people who only know how to use
that might have to use galaxy or phoenix for the hands-on demonstration
part of the tutorials.