Re: Any limits on Rcs version numbers?

[Hal Morris]

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Aaron S. Hawley wrote:

> Hal,
>
> RCS version numbers are obviously stored and i believe internally
> represented as strings, so any of the usual machine arithmetic limits are
> irrelevant.
>
> did you try this?
>
> touch foo
> ci -i365000000 foo
>

Good Idea, thanks.

> so revision numbers wouldn't appear to be a problem.  who knows if there
> aren't any other design imposed bug limits in RCS.
>
> these sorts of problems are what the usual database management systems
> (DBMS) are for.
>

I know.  That's why I called it an unorthodox approach.

Best wishes,   Hal