[18925] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.22: rcs under athena solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Apr 24 17:58:26 2001
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:58:17 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200104242158.RAA13891@multics.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@mit.edu>
CC: <bugs@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[18922] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| I am surprised this works properly under Linux! I've used RCS on a slew of
| platforms over the years and it was my opinion that it just didn't handle
| binaries well, period, with or without -kb.
What everyone else said (it's diff that matters).
|
| I'd be interested to know if someone else has a way of repairing the
| problem Angie encountered (as opposed to preventative measures, like
| "don't use RCS on binaries") that doesn't destroy the version record.
| (Deleting the ,v file by hand and checking the file in freshly solves it,
| but that's less than optimal.)
There hasn't been a problem with ci, or with the ,v files. But the easy
patch for the generic case is to binary patch your "ci" binary to use
a different diff that doesn't bomb on binary files . Around here, just
use the gnu locker ci.
--jhawk
(who observes that perhaps this is not a very useful e-mail message)
