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Note the title: Applying RCS and SCCS. Sure, this will tell you all you need to know about both those revision control systems, but its core purpose is to show you how to use these and other tools in practical project management. Thus, the book is in two parts: the first, a tutorial in RCS and SCCS; the second, a practical demonstration of building a project management software tool-set using revision control software as a basis. Revision control isn't just for programming projects. Both as a writer and a web publisher (if that isn't too grand a word for a guy with a homepage!), I find RCS invaluable, using it as part of my m4html package to track changes both to texts and to mark up definitions. While the full implementation presented in this book is a bit over the top for me, I did find the general approach and some of the ideas very useful in rolling my own toolkit for managing my writing projects.
The first part, Chs. 1-13, introduces the reader to RCS and SCCS. The chapters here are "paired", with the same topic being considered first as an RCS task, then as an SCCS job. Naturally, one would usually read only those chapters covering one's chosen tool, which makes the book less formidable than it appears — it weighs in at over 500 pages! The second part of the book begins in Ch.14, a consideration of building front-ends to RCS and SCCS. Ch. 19, "Makefile Support for Projects", is an invaluable supplement to Managing Projects with Make. The Appendices include quick references for both RCS and SCCS, and "Details in Depth" for both tools.
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