Re: Reducing the pressure
Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:17:56 -0600
Tim Smith <tzs@tzs.net>: sayeth unto the kernel list:
: On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Larry McVoy wrote:
: > : Unrelated question -- you're using SCCS as a repository. I'd like to see
: ...
: > RCS has this problem, but SCCS has a solution. In SCCS, you can say
: > "edit revision 1.19.1.20 but also include 1.28". It is up to you (or
:
: Speaking of unrelated repository format questions, one feature that RCS
: lacks that would be very useful if you could put it in your system is to
: allow the initial revision to remain outside of the repository. The
: repository would just store a pointer to the original.
:
: One could then take a base source tree on, say, a CD-ROM, and work with it,
: with only ones changes (plus repository overhead) actually being stored on
: ones hard disk.
You can trivially do this with a tree of directories with SCCS subdirectories
with symlinks to the s.files. Only the files which are actually modified
will get updated and use disk space. That OK?
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