[2098] in Athena Bugs
Incompatible change in RCS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Apr 20 16:34:27 1989
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bostic@BERKELEY.EDU, bugs@BERKELEY.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Utilinzing AFS, today I used Athena RCS to peruse things in the CMU RCS tree.
Imagine my shock, surprise, and anger when some of the uses of rlog and co came
back:
Line 2 access list missing.
This apparently is because the Tahoe RCS can put a line 'branch' as line #2
whereas the old RCS has line #2 hardwired as line #2.
Granted, having line #2 hardwired in the old version was stupid. But is the
flaunting of this incompatibility wise?
Is the Tahoe RCS labeled as having this incompatibility: that some ',v' files
written with the new RCS will not be readable by previous versions of RCS?
-wdc
