Re: [TUHS] Claim your early Unix contributions on GitHub

Diomidis Spinellis <dds(a)aueb.gr> wrote: I know of no other SCCS data, but let me make a remark that results from a recent discussion with Kirk Mckusick: Kirk told me that the regents of UCB do not like the unmodified (original) SCCS history data to be published unless this is done with a written permission. Currently only Kirk owns such a permission. Kirk did however aks whether the GIT repo from CSRG would be OK as it contains hand made fixes for a disk crash and as it does not use the original meta data. The result was that there is no problem with a different archive format. Given that the recent (upcomming **) SCCS history format (SCCSv6) is not the original SCCSv4 format that was used in CSRG, it seems that using the hand crafted fixed and a conversion to SCCSv6 would be OK as well. The advantage with the SCCSv6 history format is that you are able to convert it back to the SCCSv4 history format via: sccs -R cvt -d -V4 . ;-) I am planning a SCCSv6 variant of the CSRG archives, but I need to manually fix the broken history files first. Note that this now may be a bit easier because sccs -R val -T gives better warnings since a few years than the historic sccs did. Note that a full SCCS history may be very helpful. Last year, I came up with some problems in the Bourne Shell and a SCCS history with delta comments from around 1983 would have been very helpful to understand some changes that introduced bugs. I also recently was interested in knowing when waitpid() was introduced. **) upcomming because support for project based commits and network support is not yet ready in sccs. See http://sccs.sourceforge.net/man/sccsfile.4.html for a description of the SCCSv6 history format. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js(a)cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/