[lug] Seeking recommendations for revision control

[Scott A. Herod]

Hi James,

On my home machines, I use simple rcs ( man rcs, co and ci ) for
essentially what you describe for system configuration files.
Of course, I don't really worry about multiple access but I do
like to keep revisions of my changes so that I can easily get
back to a working state when I screw things up.

For example, in /etc I created an RCS directory.  Then before
editing any file, same "hosts", I do:

ci hosts RCS/hosts,v
co -l RCS/hosts,v hosts

One nice thing is that if you don't lock the checkout ( no -l flag ),
emacs is smart enough to provide one-click checkout ( until Bezos finds
out ).

Scott

"Harris, James" wrote:
> 
> Howdy everybody!
> 
> I'm looking for recommendations for the simplest, quickest to setup revision
> control system that will work identically between Linux and Solaris and that
> will be appropriate for managing edits to DNS zone files.  There are a bunch
> of RC Systems out there that look like they could do the job, but I've never
> used any of them, so I'd like to get everyone's recommendations based on
> experience.
> 
> Specifically I'm looking for:
> - Something that will lock the zone file when another user is in it (and
> preferably report who is editing it.)  (We do utilize sudo here.)
> - Something that will automagically backup and retain versions of the zone
> files.
> - Something that's not going to involve an enormous learning curve to use
> (however, this is least important.)
> 
> Thanks all!