Re: Trimming old diffs to save space

[Ed Avis]

On 14 Aug 2003, Paul Eggert wrote:

>>The suggestion of using rcs -o to outdate does sound better, except
>>that it loses log messages.  Would it be possible to change rcs -o
>>so it pastes the logs for outdated revisions into the log for the
>>next still-existing revision?
>
>I wouldn't change 'rcs -o' itself, as too many people depend on its
>behavior, but you could certainly add another 'rcs' option if you
>like.

In that case could I suggest a new feature:

rcs -Orange

   As rcs -o, but the revision following 'range' gets its log message
updated to include the outdated revisions' logs, in date order.  So
the log message describes all changes between that revision and the
one before it.

I may implement this feature myself but I don't plan to do it
immediately.  Does it sound like a good idea, though?

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Ed Avis <address@hidden>