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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: anoncvs server 
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:52:10 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Oops!  I knew I was going to get bitten by my mental model.  Although
what I described is possible, it is much more difficult than I
described due to the way RCS stores diffs.  Something that groks the
whole file structure should not have too much of a problem doing the
operations I described, but it is not something a simple perl script
could do as I thought.  (To see why, "man rcsfile" and see how the
diff's go down the trunk but up on branches, and think about how the
rcs diff data has to be reversed to move a diff from the trunk to a
branch)

  Bill