From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rochkind@basepath.com (Marc Rochkind) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:30:03 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Claim your early Unix contributions on GitHub In-Reply-To: <56FBF576.2000103@aueb.gr> References: <56FB8616.6060908@aueb.gr> <56FBF576.2000103@aueb.gr> Message-ID: BSD is the new kind on the block. I don't think it came along until 1977 or so. Research UNIX I don't think picked up SCCS ever. SCCS first appeared in the PWB releases, if you don't count the earlier version in SNOBOL4 for the IBM mainframes. --Marc On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > On 30/03/2016 17:25, Marc Rochkind wrote: > >> What do you mean by "early"? All of my early work was done under my >> login "marc", and in those days to email we just typed: >> >> % mail marc >> >> Email was internal to the system. Email between machines came along later. >> >> Also, I don't think we ever used the word "commit." Actually, much of my >> early work predated the introduction of SCCS. ;-) >> > > I should have been more clear. The Unix history Git repository contains > synthetic commits imported from snapshots, patches, SCCS, CVS, and Git > files. I took the liberty of attaching the email ID at research.uucp on all > Bell Labs commits, even though many predate UUCP email. > > Your SCCS work belongs to the mysterious subset of Bell Labs commands that > made their first public appearance on BSD Unix. I didn't find SCCS included > in the 6th or 7th Research Edition, nor in Unix 32/V, which, I understand, > were the ancestors of BSD. > > Specifically, I first find SCCS included in the BSD-4 snapshot (e.g. > usr.bin/sccs/sccs.c) and also in the BSD SCCS repositories predating BSD-4, > through commits such as the following. > > commit 20f9634be56fa471a34bc386dcc4c04f9587791d > Author: Eric Allman > Date: Tue May 13 07:23:29 1980 -0800 > > changed path to SCCS/s. > added chghist & help > generalized argument chomping > > SCCS-vsn: 1.2 > > > Other commands that fall into this category include fsck (frodo), gres > (lem), efl (sif), diction (llc), and ideal (cvw). Somebody has commented on > this list that a secret tunnel linked Murray Hill and Berkeley. I'd welcome > any better explanations you may have. > > > I'll find a way to graft you as the developer of SCCS somewhere between > BSD3 and BSD4, so please do claim marc at research.uucp on GitHub. Are > there other files I should also attribute to you? > > > Diomidis > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: