Re: Trimming old diffs to save space

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I am writing a tool to strip out old revisions from an RCS file while
> > leaving the log messages.  This is purely to save disk space.
>
> I like Larry Jones's suggestions, but I can't resist asking:
>
> To save disk space?  Which costs less than $1/GB?
>
> What sort of RCS files are these, anyway?  Are you checking in
> versions of video streams, or something like that?

compare that with the hourly wage of an underpaid hacker and you hope
parsing the RCS file format is an easy task...