Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing | Date | Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:34:20 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> It was fabulous at that time. The first time you create a file, it gets ";1" > appended to it's filename. When you edit it, it gets saved under the same name, > this time appended by ";2". Edit it again... whell, you get the picture. > Cleaning up was as simple as "$ PURGE /KEEP=3" to keep the last three versions. > > For these days with sometimes hundreds of files, it might become confusing when > 'ls' shows all versions of all files, but back then it worked well.
Its trickier than that - because all your other semantics have to align, its akin to the undelete problem (in fact its identical). Do you version on a rewrite, on a truncate, only on an O_CREAT ?
In terms of where to stick versions, one popular unix solution seems to be to put them in a .something directory (eg the netapp filer) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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