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From: pautet@email.enst.fr (Laurent Pautet)
Subject: Re: Configuration Management for Ada on Unix
Date: 1996/05/30
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Chris Papademetrious <st92j0gw@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu> wrote:
>
> This inefficiency has a nice advantage, though.  Let's say you have
>three modifications, A, B, and C, which affect the original version of
>a program.  Using the method which stores only *modifications* to the
>base file, you can selectively create a version which incorporates
>only the modifications A and C, while leaving out those in B.  With
>the way RCS works, the changes in B are inherently a part of C, and
>cannot be bypassed.

That's absolutely wrong. You can do it with both RCS *and* SCCS. You
didn't understand the difference between RCS and SCCS. Do : rcs -oB
and B won't exist anymore and only the difference V(C) - V(A) will be
stored.
-- 
-- Laurent