Re: RCS and checksum

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:17:15 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.rcs
Organization	UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 09/14/2010 12:01 AM, Guido Sette wrote:
> I "intuitively" know how the system works, but it is not clear to me the steps required
> to inject a checksum for each revision (As a comment into the file itself? As a separate file?).

It could be done either way.  The comment could be inserted with "ci -m'put your checksum here' file".
A separate file could be maintained in parallel with the original.  Perhaps the comment would
be simpler.