Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com>: > I believe RCS was initially used circa 1992 on the FSF machine which > held the canonical GCC sources.
That year sounds right - it's when I wrote the original vcs.el for Emacs and a lot of Emacs users who hadn't been usiing version control started to. Doesn't give us a Subversion revision, though. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>