[geeks] Versioning FIlesystem

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Mike Meredith wrote:

> If you're going to use an extra character for versions it's probably worth
> using the VMS character which I think is ';'. However there's quite a few
> problems with introducing another special character, so why not use '/' again
> ?

Because if you used /, -every- userland program would need to know how
to tell the difference between a versioned ordinary file and a
directory.

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