Re: Trimming old diffs to save space

[Aaron S. Hawley]

well there is the outdating option `rcs -o`, but are you complaining about
that it doesn't work, as reported at Debian bugs:
http://bugs.debian.org/69193

i'm pretty sure you can still use the outdating feature, but then manually
(i assume can be done automatically via Perl) removing the outdated
revisions, which are placed at the bottom of the file.

of course be sure to backup your RCS files before trying any of this!!
/a

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Ed Avis wrote:

> I have some huge files under version control.  It is unlikely I'll want
> to roll back to earlier revisions, although I'd like to keep the log
> messages.  What I want to do is remove the diffs from the RCS file so
> that the current revision is available but older ones are lost.  This
> is, of course, to save disk space.
>
> Is there a tool I can use to do this?  Or should I write a quick Perl
> script to do it?  Not knowing much about the internals of the file
> format, is there anything I should look out for?
>
> The files are in fact managed by CVS but since my question is about
> low-level manipulations on the RCS file format I thought this list would
> be the best place to ask.  Please cc replies to me.

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