[TUHS] SCCS roach motel

[Larry McVoy]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 06:11:57PM -0700, Marc Rochkind wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 2:10???PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I had heard a story once, that based on what you wrote today, I now
> > think is apocryphal and never actually happened.
> >
> > The story was that there was a bug in early SCCS where a source file
> > had to be checked in twice before it could be (successfully) checked
> > out. The bug was such that if one only checked it in once and tried to
> > check it out, it would truncate the file. "Programmers using it just
> > learned to check in twice."
> >
> > I never used SCCS extensively, and certainly never observed that
> > behavior, so chucked it up to the bug having been long fixed. As I
> > mentioned above, I doubt it was ever there to begin with. A fun story,
> > though.
> >
> >         - Dan C.
> >
> 
> This is completely ridiculous. No program I wrote ever had one of those bug
> things.

Heh.  Me too, bug?  What's that?

BTW, this thread, Marc, has had me wandering into the BitKeeper code
over and over, and while I'm done with coding, it was super pleasant to
go look at that code.  We didn't win but we wrote really nice C.  I'm
proud of that, it's an old guy thing, it's nice to look back and see
we did a good job.