Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS Message-ID: <12222@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 29 Jun 88 05:04:30 GMT References: <890@fig.bbn.com> <710@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <661@pyuxe.UUCP> <214@pigs.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 53 In article <214@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: >What exactly does an RCS file look like. It looks like this? (There, that gives an appropriate distribution of ? and . characters, if not in the right places :-) ) Comments by me appear on the far right. head 1.1; most recent rev access ; list of authorised users symbols ; names for specific rev's locks ; owners of locks on rev's comment @# @; for log messages; can ignore descriptor for rev 1.1 1.1 date 88.06.29.00.57.21; author chris; state Exp; branches ; next ; desc descriptive text @program to test for Vax 11/785 cpu bug @ latest rev is 1.1 1.1 log log message about rev 1.1 @Initial revision @ text text of rev 1.1 @start: .word 0 movl $0x80000000,r11 0: extzv $13,$4,-4(r11),r0 brb 0b @ if there were deltas, differences to convert 1.1 to (say) 0.9 would appear here (although 1.1 is always the first rev, unless you force it to be higher). the next delta might then convert rev 0.9 to rev 0.8. In each case a delta is a series of `d #' and `a #' lines, with text quoted in `@' signs. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris