From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] venti woes with brand new install From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 09:13:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46e3edc6.1c185e0a.1ae5.60da@mx.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: bc737c78-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > True, but there are no comments at all, so I can't really know what the changes fix. > I'm thinking, as i'm not a big C hacker, that a completely different change might be made to fix the problem, and the change i'm waiting for would then never appear. > Oh well, I guess I'm expecting a lot: "comments", but at the same time, without those how should we know what's happening and why? > > oh well, i guess the answer to this would be "learn C", and btw that is what i'm doing. http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/ in plan 9 there's no dialog that opens up when you save a file to allow one to comment on any changes. ;-) history is not revision control. it works at the filesystem level as a complete copy of each file is available for each day in the "dump" file system. thus it works on any file witha granularity of 1 day. many changes to a file during a day show up as a single change from day n to day n+1. - erik