Re: sccs2rcs to perl

[Larry Jones]

Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> 
> It was not the case formerly that CVS read the entire RCS file to
> retrieve the head revision.  I haven't looked at the current code.
> But previously CVS would just read the RCS header (including all the
> tags), and then only read revision text as required.

That's partially true -- CVS does just read the header to start, but
whenever it needs to read any revision text, it reads all of it.

-Larry Jones

Even though we're both talking english, we're not speaking the same language.
-- Calvin