Michael Haggerty writes: > > Larry, do you know of specific situations where the symbol ordering is > not preserved, or are you just reluctant to guarantee that it won't > happen in the future?
Lots of people have repository files that were originally created with RCS rather than CVS, and some people even continue to use RCS on CVS repository files. I have no idea whether RCS uses the same order as CVS or not, I'm not even sure that CVS has always used the current ordering, and I'm certainly not willing to guarantee that it won't change in the future since there are good reasons to use a more sophisticated data structure than a sequentially searched linear list. The RCS file format doesn't guarantee any order so you shouldn't rely on one. -- Larry Jones Oh, what the heck. I'll do it. -- Calvin
