11 Jan
2019
11 Jan
'19
11:18 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 04:08:25PM -0600, reed(a)reedmedia.net wrote:
Can someone tell me about SCCS behaviour when
renaming/moving or
deleting files? In particular, I think the select() code prior to
82/07/15 had different source filenames that no longer exist and the
SCCS history was lost. Anyone else have ideas about this? I have
noticed this with other SCCS spelunking where code was removed and then
corresponding "s" files were missing -- but maybe that is just the way
the systems that our current snapshots (McKusick discs) of this history
were made from. Maybe sccs didn't checkout the history of deleted files
by default (that is my guess).
Ah, SCCS is my jam (I rewrote it from scratch as part of BitKeeper).
SCCS didn't know about renames, it was strictly checkin/checkout.
BitKeeper added the concept of "inode" to SCCS though it was not
an integer like an inode in Unix, it was what we called a "key"
and it looked like
user@host|pathname|time_t|SCCS_chksum|64bits_of_dev_random
There was a key for each delta and the name of the file was an
attribute of the delta just as the contents were. So internally
we worked in keys but externally you used file names and it was
trivial to see where the file had lived.
Anyhoo, I digress, that's all BitKeeper, not SCCS. If you have
the SCCS history somewhere where I can get it I might be able to
find the file you want. Just point me at (I know I have that
set somewhere but no idea where they are).
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm