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authorStefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>2022-09-01 11:01:14 +0200
committerStefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>2022-09-01 11:01:14 +0200
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Minor doc fix; improve sorting of VC backends
* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Version Control Systems): Minor doc fix; rearrange list to put git, cvs and subversion at the top.
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/maintaining.texi48
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
index c23907ddfbd..81a24d0587d 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
@@ -170,26 +170,12 @@ which it refers to as @dfn{back ends}:
@itemize @bullet
-@cindex SCCS
-@item
-SCCS was the first version control system ever built, and was long ago
-superseded by more advanced ones. VC compensates for certain features
-missing in SCCS (e.g., tag names for releases) by implementing them
-itself. Other VC features, such as multiple branches, are simply
-unavailable. Since SCCS is non-free, we recommend avoiding it.
-
-@cindex CSSC
-@item
-CSSC is a free replacement for SCCS@. You should use CSSC only if, for
-some reason, you cannot use a more recent and better-designed version
-control system.
-
-@cindex RCS
+@cindex git
@item
-RCS is the free version control system around which VC was initially
-built. It is relatively primitive: it cannot be used over the
-network, and works at the level of individual files. Almost
-everything you can do with RCS can be done through VC.
+Git is a decentralized version control system originally invented by
+Linus Torvalds to support development of Linux (his kernel). VC
+supports many common Git operations, but others, such as repository
+syncing, must be done from the command line.
@cindex CVS
@item
@@ -208,12 +194,26 @@ similar to CVS but without its problems (e.g., it supports atomic
commits of filesets, and versioning of directories, symbolic links,
meta-data, renames, copies, and deletes).
-@cindex git
+@cindex SCCS
@item
-Git is a decentralized version control system originally invented by
-Linus Torvalds to support development of Linux (his kernel). VC
-supports many common Git operations, but others, such as repository
-syncing, must be done from the command line.
+SCCS was the first version control system ever built, and was long ago
+superseded by more advanced ones. VC compensates for certain features
+missing in SCCS (e.g., tag names for releases) by implementing them
+itself. Other VC features, such as multiple branches, are simply
+unavailable. Since SCCS is non-free, we recommend avoiding it.
+
+@cindex CSSC
+@item
+CSSC is a free replacement for SCCS@. You should use CSSC only if, for
+some reason, you cannot use a more recent and better-designed version
+control system.
+
+@cindex RCS
+@item
+RCS is the free version control system around which VC was initially
+built. It is relatively primitive: it cannot be used over the
+network, and works at the level of individual files. Almost
+everything you can do with RCS can be done through VC.
@cindex hg
@cindex Mercurial