On March 15, 2002 07:47 pm, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Here's the deal. I know you guys all think that I'm a genius and
> everything, but I'm actually dumb as a board. The "design mistake"
> was made so that I could have BK generate pure SCCS files and test that
> I did the same thing as a known working tool, ATT SCCS. By doing that,
> I easily saved myself a year of design. Making interleaved deltas work
> is hard for me (we have Rick here now and he's forgotten more about this
> stuff than I'll ever know, but we didn't have him when I wrote the SCCS
> compat weave).
>
> [...]
>
> I'm gonna hack at least make & patch to know about the new format and
> work the way they do now. So I can have your cake and eat it too.
> If I can't get the FSF to take the changes, we'll just ship 'em,
> we ship diff & patch already, so it's not so hard to alias make='bk make'.
While you're in there, is there any way I can have an option to have the
'shouting' SCCS become .SCCS or something, so a normal listing just shows
the files I'm interested in?
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