From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:31:23 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems In-Reply-To: References: <20180321141753.25C4418C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <6c6699c0-15db-604a-181c-7dad282599e1@kilonet.net> <20180321202810.GA6280@minnie.tuhs.org> <4ED5DE5D-B2FC-4018-B4A8-2639CDB2073E@jctaylor.com> Message-ID: <20180322013123.GO9739@mcvoy.com> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:02:24PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 6:18 PM, William Corcoran wrote: > > > Along the same lines: > > ???... > > > > Is there any chance of finding a publicly available UNIX archive that > > includes the corresponding SCCS data for UNIX---to the extent that SCCS > > deltas and PRS comments can be examined? > > > > > Bill check out Diomidis Spinellis truely amazing work at: > https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo > > ???He has done an amazing job of reconstructing much of the lost work. It is > a treasure for us all. Agreed but I'd still like the SCCS history. I have it somewhere for BSD, it was on Kirk's cds but I'd love to wander through the SCCS from Bell Labs. I'm an SCCS fan, BitKeeper (sadly forgotten these days, my baby) was SCCS on steriods. BK has an import tool that will take SCCS history and intuit what we today call commits, it will find the changes that are in the same time and by the same person and create a changeset for that. BK is still, to this day, by far the best tool to use to browse history. So if I could get the SCCS history for early Unix I could give you all a super pleasant way to look at that history (we open sourced BK when we shut down). --lm