[2864] in SIPB bug reports
Re: GNUS speedups, gnus-dist, and RCS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sun May 24 06:15:57 1992
Date: Sun, 24 May 92 06:15:28 -0400
From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: Chad Brown <yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>, yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Chad Brown's message of Sat, 23 May 92 22:51:48 EDT,
Reply-To: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU
I haven't looked at that part of the directory for a while, but a common
convention (especially for large source distributions that have easily
identifiable patchlevel.h or other version identifiers) is to _not_ put
it under RCS until someone needs to make a local patch. This is because
checking all the files in under RCS will double the amount of space
required by a source tree, and if most of it is going to be unmodified,
there isn't much point in checking the whole thing into RCS.
- Ted
