Hello, Being a writer, I find RCS is still the best VCS for my needs.
I tried CVS, SVN, Git, Darcs, but RCS is just perfect for what I need: a single user, single file, plain-text, local control system. Some say RCS is outdated, and Why one should waste time on such an old application? To me, old not always means worse; quite often it means better. And I personally find RCS is definitely better than others more modern and advanced systems, of course in respect to those aspects. Anyway, there is only one thing that I would like to have, and that is checksums. I searched for options, and I found MD5RCS[^1]. It uses a patched version of rlog, and it seem to almost work, except that, when I tried to manually "corrupt" a revision inside a test.txt,v file, md5rcs declared all of the revisions were corrupted. Is there any alternative to that application, to compute and verify checksums (md5 or others) on individual revisions of a RCS file? Perhaps a simple shell script to invoke before checking in and out? Thank you very much in advance Sincerely, Guido Sette [^1]: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/articles/md5rcs.html
