[MUD-Dev] Version Control (was: DBs and Events)

[Vadim Tkachenko]

coder at ibm.net wrote:
> 
> On 16/02/98 at 03:37 PM, Vadim Tkachenko <vadimt at 4cs.com> said:
> >coder at 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 :-))

> 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.

> 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?

> >RCS is good enough, the only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to
> >allow multiple users to edit and compile the code with a minimum overhead
> >- the kind of people I'm dealing with is having difficulties setting
> >CLASSPATH...
> 
> Spec the problem out a little more and I may be able to help.

Just caught the chiken-pox from my daughter, so I have a week to
investigate without any interference :-)

> J C Lawrence

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