Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:32:40 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing |
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Mark H. Wood wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, 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. >> >>I don't know if this feature was in the file-system or in the text editor >>that I have used. >> > >It's part of the TOPS-20 filesystem. If you try to create a file which >already exists, you get a new version of the file with length zero. Each >file has a version limit in its directory entry, and when the limit is >exceeded the oldest version is automagically deleted. The version limit >is copied from the highest existing version to the new version, and the >limit on the highest version determines whether old versions are dropped. > > If it isn't optional (on per file and/or per directory basis) for users, it would be quite annoying.
Hans
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