Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: The history of the Linux OS | Date | 27 Nov 1998 10:43:19 +0100 |
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Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > > > > > > say we have 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.4 > > > put them in cvs and all of a sudden 1.1.2 appears from some kindly soul > > > can cvs/rcs/sccs (you choose) handle this? > > > > That's why we have tags.
OK, but 1.1.2 would then have to be stored in a branch off of 1.1.2, where it doesn't really belong.
But in practice that's not a problem.
> but in the above example, 1-1-2 would be stored as a diff relative to 1-1-4,
Wrong. The RCS file format is somewhat stupid, but it's not _that_ stupid. It _does_ understand branches.
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