[PATCH] commit: use the term SCM instead of RCS

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Tue Jan 18 14:01:01 CST 2011


Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:

> On 2011-01-18 16:52, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
>> 
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>
>>> # Date 1295356587 -3600
>>> # Node ID d6b67f5317a25a847b5748fac795e25fc8425d71
>>> # Parent  57d433f632b7f76dea25cd38d0a8f4028d4dd1b8
>>> commit: use the term SCM instead of RCS
>> 
>> I actually prefer the term 'VCS' since software configuration management
>> (SCM) is such a broad term that covers more than just version control,
>> at least in my opinion/understanding.
>> 
>> I agree that 'RCS' is unfortunate since there is a concrete application
>> with that name.
>> 
>
> VCS would be an improvement over RCS. Feel free to push VCS.
>
> But Mercurial calls itself an SCM (hg version, the top of hg.1.html).

Yeah, I noticed -- there is a lot of SCMs all over the code. I searched
some more online and suddenly realized that SCM can also mean 'source
code management', or perhaps 'source code manager' since 'SCM' is often
used like 'the Mercurial SCM', and so 'management' doesn't sound right.

-- 
Martin Geisler

Mercurial links: http://mercurial.ch/
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