On 21 Feb 2005, at 12:38, Brion Vibber wrote:
While everyone maintaining non-trivial code trees should probably be using some source control system, that's not necessary to get diffs. You can simply use the standard Unix 'diff' tool.
This is true. But an SCMS also does a lot of other stuff for you, like automagic merges, version numbering, and branch tracking. (Not that anyone should ever do automatic merging without looking at the changes first... :-)
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