Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:23:18 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing |
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 ?
That's a nice question. I would dread the scenario where a new version was created for each append ;))
Rik -- <insert bitkeeper endorsement here>
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