Re: Xdelta and CVS

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 11:46:42 (-0700), Stephen Rasku wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Xdelta and CVS
>
> Greg Woods wrote:
> 
> >It's probably important to note that if you were using SCCS "properly",
> >and you were making any significant use of its full feature set, then
> >you almost certainly lost important history information during the
> >conversion (unless you used an unpublished conversion process --
> >i.e. not the sccstorcs script included with CVS).
> 
> You didn't define "properly" in your statement.  I wasn't aware of any 
> SCCS history that was lost.  What do you suppose I lost?

As I said *IF* you were using it "properly" and *IF* you were making any
significant use of its full feature set, then you would have lost (or at
least obfuscated) some of your revision history (and indeed some of your
release information too).  Full use of SCCS implies that you made full
use of the Release.Level.Branch.Sequence SID scheme and since SCCS
doesn't have any concept of using symbolic names to map to SIDs, you
wouldn't be able to access any historical branches or releases.

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