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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Patch dates or Patch Numbers
Message-ID: <1058@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 24 Aug 89 16:57:26 GMT
References: <1989Aug9.164003.20669@utzoo.uucp> <6717@dayton.UUCP> <1989Aug17.171000.23302@utzoo.uucp> <2876@itivax.iti.org> <1989Aug19.215016.23031@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Aug19.215016.23031@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>If there are only a handful of patches, it just
>doesn't matter that much.

Then why don't you accept the fact that the overwhelming majority
of us want numbered patches and switch? Or, run both systems in parallel.
Both rcs and sccs can stamp files with revision numbers and dates.
-- 
Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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