One does not need to use CVS for version control. I used RCS and RCS.pm last year. I found RCS.pm to be very reliable even though it is several years old and only has a version number of 0.09. RCS.pm allowed me to use Perl to script various repetitive changes to the controlled files.

But I wonder whether version control is a complete answer for two files which have not previously been under version control and so may no longer be n'sync. Rather than saying "bye, bye, bye" to one of the two files I would use diff or a similar file compare utility to actually look at the two files. Then after unifying any unwanted forks in the development path I would put the whole shmear under version control.

In reply to Re: Re: Syncing a development and production server... by sierrathedog04
in thread Syncing a development and production server... by YoungPups

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