This tutorial covered the fundamental operations of version control with RCS. The total functionality offered by RCS far surpasses the coverage of the introduction offered in this section. However, familiarity with just these routine version control tasks leverages many of the critical benefits of version control. The advanced features of RCS are still available for future use. From here, other concepts and features of RCS can be learned and understood.

Other features and concepts skipped include branches, merges, keyword substitution options, version names, file initialization options, localizations and the realm of multiple author usage and administration. However, these operations are so rarely used or needed for so few tasks that they need not complicate an introductory tutorial.