Re: renaming under CVS

[Noel Yap]

--- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 20:00:09 (-0800),
> Noel Yap wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: renaming under CVS
> >
> > --- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > That's just not true at all.  CVS _is_ an RCS
> > > front-end, regardless of
> > > how it invokes the RCS code (or even whether or
> not
> > > the RCS code it uses
> > > is the same or different than the "original" RCS
> > > implementation).
> > 
> > I completely disagree.  There is absolutely no
> reason
> > (other than your insistence that RCS needs to be
> able
> > to read CVS files) for CVS to stick to this
> format.
> 
> You can disagree with reality all you like, but you
> can't change it.

I was thinking about this a bit more and came to the
conclusion that a mapping wouldn't break RCS
compatibility since RCS would still be able to read
the files.  Of course, one would have to handle the
mapping oneself, but this is similar to when CVS added
client/server to its list of features, RCS users would
have had to handle the communication themselves.

Noel

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