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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:17:23 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Source Code Control System
Message-ID:  <3D07D683.E8432EFB@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020612155452.A57120@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020612231407.GH44106@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 June 2002 at 15:54:52 -0700, Juli Mallett wrote:
> > In my work as part of Mike Barcroft's team of people doing standards work
> > such as bringing utilities up to conformance, I decided to do necessary
> > bits to try to get SCCS in a form that could be brought into our source
> > tree.  As it is right now, I have a version of CSRG SCCS that mostly works
> > but lacks a few standards-related options, and I have framework to bring a
> > Public Domain C++ SCCS implementation into the build.
> 
> My feeling is that SCCS is only of historical interest.  It would be
> nice to be able to access old SCCS files, but I can't imagine that
> many people would want to use it for new work.

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.

-- Terry

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