src mit Homebrew, dnf installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• src

Projektgeschichte

The official manual describes SRC as simple revision control for single-file projects by solo developers and authors, explicitly calling it a modernization of RCS. The FAQ frames the tool as a response to modern VCS tools that are powerful for multi-user, multi-file projects but awkward for small private files.

SRC is built on top of RCS rather than reimplementing RCS master-file internals. It can also operate on SCCS repositories, mostly for legacy compatibility, while its default storage directory is `.src`.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The package metadata in this batch shows `src` available through Homebrew and Fedora/DNF. That is a modest but meaningful packaging footprint for a niche developer tool: it is not trying to replace Git, but package managers make it easy to install alongside RCS for the narrow single-file use case.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is deliberately small: initialize a directory, commit one or more files, inspect status and logs, and retrieve previous revisions. The manual documents RCS/SCCS interoperability, import from RCS or SCCS directories, and commands shaped to feel familiar to Subversion, Mercurial, and Git users.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

`src` is interesting to package nerds because it is a compatibility-layer package around very old Unix version-control machinery. It preserves the single-file workflow that RCS was good at while exposing a friendlier CLI, so the packaging question is less about ecosystem size and more about keeping a classic Unix niche installable.

Zeitleiste

• 1970s-1980s: SCCS and RCS established the single-file version-control lineage that SRC later wraps.
• 2010s: SRC 1.x series published with a public GitLab repository and CATB-hosted documentation.
• 2020s: SRC documentation continues to describe RCS as the recommended backend and SCCS as legacy support.

Related projects

• SRC is directly related to RCS and SCCS, and its FAQ compares its command style with Subversion, Mercurial, and Git.

Quellen

• http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/FAQ.html
• http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/src.html
• https://gitlab.com/esr/src
• source_facts.package-manager