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SCCS roach motel
[TUHS] SCCS roach motel Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com Sat Dec 14 04:06:49 AEST 2024 On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Marc Rochkind wrote: > IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering has asked me to write a > retrospective on the influence of SCCS over the last 50 years, as my SCCS > paper was published in 1975. They consider it one of the most influential > papers from TSE's first decade.
They consider it one of the most influential> papers from TSE's first decade.>> There's a funny quote from Ken Thompson that circulates from time-to-time:>>"SCCS, the source motel! So if I have a file with 5 revisions in straight line history, the internal stuff will look something like rev me parent 1.5 5 4 1.4 4 3 1.3 3 2 1.2 2 1 1.1 1 0 So what's the set? You do the 3 way merge, it will find the lines "3" and "5" as anchor points in both versions, so it is a simple insert with no new data added to the weave.
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