Re: Trimming old diffs to save space
"Aaron S. Hawley" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs,gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs |
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| Organization | University of Vermont |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Paul Eggert wrote: > Ed Avis <[email protected]> writes: > > > I am writing a tool to strip out old revisions from an RCS file while > > leaving the log messages. This is purely to save disk space. > > I like Larry Jones's suggestions, but I can't resist asking: > > To save disk space? Which costs less than $1/GB? > > What sort of RCS files are these, anyway? Are you checking in > versions of video streams, or something like that? compare that with the hourly wage of an underpaid hacker and you hope parsing the RCS file format is an easy task...