[TUHS] SCCS

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Sat Sep 14 07:17:51 AEST 2019


On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:11:04PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> emanuel stiebler wrote in <8db2e89c-ce50-a453-e38a-ecdfe69a746c at e-bbes.com>:
>  |On 2019-09-12 19:29, Clem Cole wrote:
>  |> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:16 PM Eric Allman <tuhs at eric.allman.name
>  |> <mailto:tuhs at eric.allman.name>> wrote:
>  |> 
>  |>     ??At thispoint I'm using git because, well, all the cool kids are
>  |>     doing it, and
>  |>     since I work at the university I have to go with the flow sometimes.
>  |>     And git has some nice properties.?? On the other hand, I have \
>  |>     shot myself
>  |>     in the foot with git more times than the sum of all other screwups \
>  |>     with
>  |>     all other source management systems combined.
>  |> 
>  |>     eric
>  |> 
>  |> +1??
>  |
>  |I have this one on the waqll in the office:
>  |https://xkcd.com/1597/
> 
> I for one am so happy to have git that i cannot tell you how much
> that is.  I have used rcs, cvs, subversion, back to cvs,
> mercurial over the years,, and for some small things also sccs.
> All of it has been a pain here or there.  Yes, the weave.  Schily
> wants to provide real changeset support for sccs (tagging is real
> problem), i think.  

I don't know why, BitKeeper does that and is open source under 
a liberal license (Apache v2).


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