Re: ls*, markup and other things

[Alexey M. <mo...@no...>]

=F7 =F0=D4=CE, 10.05.2002, =D7 07:01, Alexey Mahotkin =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC=
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> Huh?  You mean purging intermediate revisions that are, say, older than
> certain date?  This could be done simply with 'cvs admin -o' (an option
> inherited from the RCS).
Well, almost but not completely. One needs to be able to save parts of
rcs files that are going to be removed and be able to restore them upon
a request... Well, I understand that this functionality shouldn't be put
into server but rather into admin scripts instead.

> Of course, that's maybe kind of extreme to do this, though maybe
> practical.
>=20
>=20
> In the long term rewriting of librcs could be considered, surely :) It
> could create all sorts of temporary files and indices near the master
> ,v-file.  I do not think that such decision should be taken lightly, thou=
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> it could have a lot of advantages.
:-). The Proper Way is not a light thing anyway :-)