[TUHS] A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System

[Marc Rochkind]

Thanks for the kind words, Larry.

Marc

On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> Nice.
>
> For what it is worth, your SCCS supports merging just fine.  We used
> SCCS to do merges without copying by using your includes.  If SCCS had
> had a -m for merge, it would have included the branch but then all the
> other deltas going up to the GCA.  Much like the tip means the tip
> but all the other deltas going back to 1.1.
>
> SCCS was a big contribution to the state of the art, I am forever
> grateful that you did it.  To this day I don't think people know
> what you did.  When we were a business, every time some SCM came out,
> Rick or I would ask "is there a weave" like you had done, if not,
> we didn't care.  That weave format that you did 50 years ago is
> awesome.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 06:16:25PM -0700, Marc Rochkind wrote:
> > I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was writing this invited paper for an
> > upcoming 50-year anniversary of the first issue of IEEE Transactions on
> > Software Engineering.
> >
> > The paper has now been accepted for publication and here's a preprint
> > version of it:
> >
> > https://www.mrochkind.com/mrochkind/docs/SCCSretro2.pdf
> >
> > Marc
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
>


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