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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 and BitKeeper
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 01:39:52 +0100
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On March 15, 2002 07:47 pm, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Here's the deal.  I know you guys all think that I'm a genius and
> everything, but I'm actually dumb as a board.  The "design mistake"
> was made so that I could have BK generate pure SCCS files and test that
> I did the same thing as a known working tool, ATT SCCS.  By doing that,
> I easily saved myself a year of design.  Making interleaved deltas work
> is hard for me (we have Rick here now and he's forgotten more about this
> stuff than I'll ever know, but we didn't have him when I wrote the SCCS
> compat weave).
>
> [...]
>
> I'm gonna hack at least make & patch to know about the new format and
> work the way they do now.  So I can have your cake and eat it too.
> If I can't get the FSF to take the changes, we'll just ship 'em,
> we ship diff & patch already, so it's not so hard to alias make='bk make'.

While you're in there, is there any way I can have an option to have the
'shouting' SCCS become .SCCS or something, so a normal listing just shows
the files I'm interested in?

-- 
Daniel
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