Re: The history of the Linux OS

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
27 Nov 1998 10:43:19 +0100


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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