Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:48:51 +0300 | | From | Hans Reiser <> | | Subject | Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing |
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Richard Gooch wrote:
>Hans Reiser writes: > >>Itai Nahshon wrote: >> >>>On Sunday 10 March 2002 10:36, Hans Reiser wrote: >>> >>>>I think that if version control becomes as simple as turning on a plugin >>>>for a directory or file, and then adding a little to the end of a >>>>filename to see and list the old versions, Mom can use it. >>>> >>>IIRC that was a feature in systems from DEC even before >>>VMS (I'm talking about the late 70's). eg. file.txt;2 was revision 2 >>>of file.txt. >>> >>Was it easy? Did people like it? Any lessons/successes? >> > >Mostly I found it an inconvenience. When playing with big files (say >around 1 MiB), you had to remember to purge periodically. I can't >recall being grateful that this feature existed. > >Certainly, when I switched to Unix, I didn't miss file versioning. >I question how useful it really is, except in certain specialised >applications (like SCM, where we have tools to fit the job). > > Regards, > > Richard.... >Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au >Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca > > So the problem was that it was not optional?
Hans
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