Operations and other mysteries
A blog by Andrew Cowie
Thursday, 13 Sep 2007
Git depends on RCS
Somehow, that says it all.
Apparently Git depended on the RCS package to get at certain merge functions. This is ironic, because RCS is a primitive 1st generation version control tool (sort of) that predates CVS.
AfC
Update:
- Dave O’Neill just pointed out to me that this dependency was actually removed in January ‘06. I looked around further and discovered that it’s the Debian “etch” package of Git 1.4.x that depends on RCS. This has been superceeded in “lenny” which presents 1.5.x.
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