13 Sep
2019
13 Sep
'19
11:22 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:
Yeah, this was one of things that BitKeeper addressed.
It was easier to
use and every commit was a tag.
That reminds me: I really must take another look at BK for my stuff.
At the moment I'm using say "fred.c-" for the previous version etc (and
"fred.c+" for something finished but not quite ready to install).
I've also renamed entire directory trees to sub-tree under "OLD" etc :-)
SCCS/RCS are history as far as I'm concerned; I never quite got the hang
of CVS (which OpenLDAP uses); and I've heard all sorts of horror stories
about GIT to keep me away from it...
-- Dave