[geeks] Versioning FIlesystem

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:53:37PM -0400, David A de Gruyl wrote:
> * on [03-05-22 20:42] Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> >On Thu, 22 May 2003 vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> 
> >>CVS isn't anywhere near as transparent as VMS versioning.
> 
> >Neither is adding as a bag on the side of Unix, unless you do it in
> >libc.  That'd be an interesting hack.
> 
> I basically came to the same conclusion, as unless it is built into the 
> operating system (or if you prefer the operating environment -- 
> including the shell and utilities) any change will be just a hack.  And 
> a confusing one at that.  

It shouldn't be confusing to programmers, and I think if a user can
understand VMS versioning, they could understand an edit script that
did the same thing.


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