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4735: Re: [MUD-Dev] Version Control (was: DBs and Events)
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From: coder@ibm.net
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 98 18:15:59 -0800
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On 20/02/98 at 01:47 PM, Vadim Tkachenko <vadimt@4cs.com> said:
>coder@ibm.net wrote:
>>
>> On 16/02/98 at 03:37 PM, Vadim Tkachenko <vadimt@4cs.com> said:
>> >coder@ibm.net wrote:
>>
>> >[skipped]
>> >> I am becoming a fast fan of journalling versioning file systems. These
>> >> problems just disappear.
>>
>> >Can you please elaborate on that?
>>
>> Journalling filesystems (loosely speaking) run the filesystem as a
>> journalling database.
>OK, I see - I just jumped at the wrong sentence being under influence of
>my RCS investigations :-))
Have a look at the following:
http://www.wv.com/
ftp://ftp.pn.com/pub/bb/wvfs/wvfs-2.2.14430954-alpha.tar.gz
http://www.objs.com/survey/OFSExt.htm
>> RCS, CVS, SCCS and company are version control systems. They have nothing
>> to do with filesystems per se -- they operate at the file or directory
>> level. I use RCS -- I haven't looked into CVS (tho I suppose I should).
>> Comparitively RCS is a superset of SCCS, and is quite simple.
>CVS announces itself as a wrapper for RCS, as it goes from the docs I
>managed to read so far, you can keep the repository as a single entity
>instead of multiple RCS files.
See PRCS: http://www.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/~jmacd/prcs.html. It doesn't do
distribution (yet), but has much other promise.
>> Note a versioning filesystem would essentially do RCS int he background
>> without your ever having to touch it. cf ClearCase.
>By the way, what does 'cf' stand for?
cf, from the latin 'confer', or compare.
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