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I think it's somewhere inbetween, similar to the heirloom-doctools. You can interact with any live SCCS repo -- if you find any outside of BitKeeper (whose form

I think it's somewhere inbetween, similar to the heirloom-doctools. You can interact with any live SCCS repo -- if you find any outside of BitKeeper (whose format seems to have diverged anyway). And for some reason it's in POSIX. I'm pretty sure nobody even cares about its existence in POSIX, but it's technically there. Though I can't think of a single OS that ships SCCS; OpenBSD ships GNU CVS and their own RCS (OpenCVS is sadly in eternal limbo[1]), not sure what FreeBSD does. Linux distributions generally don't ship anything. And git has basically won anyway. [1] http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Status-of-OpenCVS-td318199.html http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Status-of-OpenCVS-...

pjmlp 8y ago
> Though I can't think of a single OS that ships SCCS Commercial UNIX systems do. Check the documentation of Aix, HP-UX and similar.
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AdieuToLogic 8y ago
Recent FreeBSD's do not, though the what[0] command has been ported from SCCS and is, IMHO, the only part of SCCS which remains relevant. 0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=what&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=what&apropos=0&sek...
anthk 8y ago
I think OpenBSD switched to its own CVS binary. EDIT: So, not yet, but they will. OpenBSD has a long story of reimplementing GNU tools in BSD, see the bc(1), dc(1) history.
- beefhash 8y ago
  Work on OpenCVS started in 2004[1] and schwarze@ said last year that the project is "dormant" and in a state where "trying to use it in production revealed instabilities that were non-trivial to debug, and nobody did the work to get if from 'almost ready' to 'reliable'." [1] https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/04/12/06/1154242/new-bsd-licensed-cvs-replacement-for-openbsd https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/04/12/06/1154242/new-bsd-lice... [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149453183500614&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149453183500614&w=2

pjmlp 8y ago

> Though I can't think of a single OS that ships SCCS Commercial UNIX systems do. Check the documentation of Aix, HP-UX and similar.

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AdieuToLogic 8y ago

Recent FreeBSD's do not, though the what[0] command has been ported from SCCS and is, IMHO, the only part of SCCS which remains relevant. 0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=what&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=what&apropos=0&sek...

anthk 8y ago

I think OpenBSD switched to its own CVS binary. EDIT: So, not yet, but they will. OpenBSD has a long story of reimplementing GNU tools in BSD, see the bc(1), dc(1) history.

beefhash 8y ago
Work on OpenCVS started in 2004[1] and schwarze@ said last year that the project is "dormant" and in a state where "trying to use it in production revealed instabilities that were non-trivial to debug, and nobody did the work to get if from 'almost ready' to 'reliable'." [1] https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/04/12/06/1154242/new-bsd-licensed-cvs-replacement-for-openbsd https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/04/12/06/1154242/new-bsd-lice... [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149453183500614&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149453183500614&w=2