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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:05:42 +0100 (CET)
From: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing
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Revision controll was a nightmare with aleph DB on dear old VMS.
Had to clean older versions of the db every month, because, of course,
I could not have on the fs more than 32K versions...
well, Aleph was a nightmare itself, actually...


On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
> Was it easy?  Did people like it?  Any lessons/successes?
>
> Hans
>
>
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