diff lisp/vc-rcs.el @ 105590:7e0a5f5d7775

* vc.el: Move comments about RCS and SCCS ... * vc-rcs.el: * vc-sccs.el: ... here, respectively.
author Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
date Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:00:51 +0000
parents f8ba8d6fd250
children a0f778f4a995
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--- a/lisp/vc-rcs.el	Wed Oct 14 03:05:06 2009 +0000
+++ b/lisp/vc-rcs.el	Wed Oct 14 06:00:51 2009 +0000
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@
 
 ;; See vc.el
 
+;; Some features will not work with old RCS versions.  Where
+;; appropriate, VC finds out which version you have, and allows or
+;; disallows those features (stealing locks, for example, works only
+;; from 5.6.2 onwards).
+;; Even initial checkins will fail if your RCS version is so old that ci
+;; doesn't understand -t-; this has been known to happen to people running
+;; NExTSTEP 3.0.
+;;
+;; You can support the RCS -x option by customizing vc-rcs-master-templates.
+
 ;;; Code:
 
 ;;;