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PRCS: The project revision control system

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PRCS is an attempt to provide a version-control system for collections of files with a simple operational model, a clean user interface, and high performance. PRCS is characterized by the use of project description files to input most commands, instead of a point-and-click or a line-oriented interface. It employs optimistic concurrency control and encourages operations on the entire project rather than individual files. Although its current implementation uses RCS in the back-end, the interface completely hides its presence. PRCS is free. This paper describes the advantages and disadvantages of our approach, and discusses implementation issues.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Josh MacDonald & Paul N. Hilfinger

  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Luigi Semenzato

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MacDonald, J., Hilfinger, P.N., Semenzato, L. (1998). PRCS: The project revision control system. In: Magnusson, B. (eds) System Configuration Management. SCM 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053876

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