jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) (06/26/89)
It's true (isn't it?) that you can't use the Revision Control System on files which have more than one link. In other words, things like this: ln name1 name2 ci -u name1 co -l name1 will break the link between "name1" and "name2". To get around this, I either use symbolic links (which eat disk space) or I do things by hand with temporary files, "mv", and "co -p". Has anyone hacked RCS (co and ci, especially) to handle this? You couldn't let 'ci' delete the working file, of course; the "-u" or "-l" flag would have to be required (or implicit). And all "co" would do is: cat new_revision > old_revision so that old_revision would always exist. --Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, jdpeek@sunris.bitnet +1 315 443-3995