Not a holy war - just some salient facts

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 16:04, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> But I'm not really clear about what is the difference between this
> animal, a `scm' (I guess), and vcs type tools.  It appears to have
> some kind of different focus but I'm not getting what it is.
>
> Wikipedia (in the first few lines) indicates the names [scm|vcs] are
>  interchangeable ..  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
>
> is that right? or do they have different intended usage?

SCM and VCS are often used interchangeably, but there are subtle
differences. You could review the wiki pages to get an idea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_configuration_management

Cheers,

Dirkjan