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Re: Trimming old diffs to save space
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Aaron S. Hawley |
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Re: Trimming old diffs to save space |
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Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:19:07 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Ed Avis <ed@membled.com> writes:
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> > I am writing a tool to strip out old revisions from an RCS file while
> > leaving the log messages. This is purely to save disk space.
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> I like Larry Jones's suggestions, but I can't resist asking:
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> To save disk space? Which costs less than $1/GB?
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> What sort of RCS files are these, anyway? Are you checking in
> versions of video streams, or something like that?
compare that with the hourly wage of an underpaid hacker and you hope
parsing the RCS file format is an easy task...