Re: Time to remove sccs tags

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023, 11:03 AM Brooks Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 09:12:48AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > It's been 30 odd years since the last csrg release. They are no more.
> >
> > At this point I think we can safely remove the few sccs tags that remain
> in
> > the tree. The data will be there in git if we ever need it.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Yes please.  The history is there in there repo(s) and there's so much
> blind copying where the context is entirely lost.
>
> From my perspective it would be nice to have fewer commits per-subtree
> than with $FreeBSD removal.  In recent spelunking I've found that for low
> traffic sub-trees I'm seeing a full screen (~50 lines for me) or more of
> those
> logs before getting to commits with content changes due to inconsistent
> formatting leading to multiple removal commits.
>

Fortunately there are way fewer files like this so I can do fewer commits
that are still macabre.

Warner

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