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Re: Trimming old diffs to save space
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Paul Edwards |
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Re: Trimming old diffs to save space |
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:49:48 GMT |
"Aaron S. Hawley" <Aaron.Hawley@uvm.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.396.1060817130.29551.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > What sort of RCS files are these, anyway? Are you checking in
> > versions of video streams, or something like that?
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> compare that with the hourly wage of an underpaid hacker and you hope
> parsing the RCS file format is an easy task...
Hell, it's cost me more time reading this thread than the OP is
going to save. I should have just paid the money upfront.
BFN. Paul.