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Re: Wow, just hit RCS bug
- From: tednolan at bellsouth dot net
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:53:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: Wow, just hit RCS bug
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you write:
>RCS does a great job for smaller projects when I don't need the
>overhead of any of the popular larger systems. It has saved me many
>times when I'm working on a short document or a set of scripts on my
>desktop machine.
>
>I'd miss it if it were removed simply due to the lack of handling
>10Meg of diffs or similar. Wonder if this bug could be fixed some
>way?
>
Well, I agree, or I wouldn't be using RCS in the first place.
But even though I'm the only coder on the project, I've managed to work
the main library file up to 256+ K, and I suspect it's not at all
rare for RCS projects to have files in that range.
256K is the key number, not 10M.
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