From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 12 22:53:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail2.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6364737B413; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alcanet.com.au (8.12.1/8.12.1/Alcanet1.2) with ESMTP id g5D5rB6C002439; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:53:11 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.2-32 #37641) with ESMTP id <01KIVYOIYVEO8Y8GWM@cim.alcatel.com.au>; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:52:21 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5D5r5Dp025017; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:53:05 +1000 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5D5r44i025016; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:53:04 +1000 (EST) Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:53:04 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: The Source Code Control System In-reply-to: <200206130427.g5D4RxB02065@panix2.panix.com>; from rsi@panix.com on Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:27:59AM -0400 To: Rajappa Iyer Cc: Terry Lambert , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Juli Mallett , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: Rajappa Iyer , Terry Lambert , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Juli Mallett , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20020613155304.X680@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i References: <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020612231407.GH44106@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3D07D683.E8432EFB@mindspring.com> <200206130427.g5D4RxB02065@panix2.panix.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-Jun-13 00:27:59 -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: >Terry Lambert writes: >> I agree. I'd like to be able to look at the changes and comments >> in the historical BSD 4.2/4.3/4.4 source trees that you can buy >> from Kirk, so that you can see *why* particular things happened, >> rather than just *that* they happened. > >Didn't RCS used to have an sccs2rcs command? I seem to recall that >the original version by Walter Tichy did have that utility. I once had a quick look at it. It works through each SCCS revision using sccs-get to extract the revision and then ci to add it to the RCS repository (with some extra SCCS commands to extract and re-use the log entries). It won't work unless you have working copies of both SCCS and RCS installed. (The other downside is that you appear to lose all the timestamps). Writing a utility that read an SCCS repository and turned it directly into an RCS repository (including all the original timestamps) would be much nicer - and a lot of work. Overall, I think SCCS should be a port. I agree with Terry that it's unlikely to be ever used for anything other than looking through the CSRG repository. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message