Condensing a series of FAQ versions

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> Though I risk getting lost in the flurry, I'd like to know of a tool
> to condense my monthly series of slowly-changing FAQ versions them
> down to a current version plus a sequence of successive changes, from
> which I can, with a simple command, reconstruct any prior version,
> _and_ bring me to the same state the next month.

Have you tried using RCS, and if so, where does RCS fail you? (I find
RCS to fall short in that automatic change-bars and human-readable diff
files can only be generated using somewhat kludgy script files; also,
such tools are too sensitive to formatting changes for my tastes.)

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