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NAME
fhist - file history and comparison tools
Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999 Peter Miller; All rights reserved.
Portions of this program are
Copyright (C) 1990 David I. Bell.
The fhist package is distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, see the LICENSE section,
below, for more information.
DESCRIPTION
The FHist program contains 3 utilities, a file history
tool ``fhist'', a file comparison tool ``fcomp'', and a
file merging tool ``fmerge'. All three are bundled
together, because they all use the same minimal-difference
algorithm.
fhist
Keeps track of versions of a file. See fhist(1)
for more information.
fcomp
Compares two versions of a file. See fcomp(1) for
more information.
fmerge
Merges together edits from two descendants of a
file. See fmerge(1) for more information.
The history tool presented here, fhist, is a minimal
history tool. It provides no locking or branching. This
can be useful in contexts where the configuration
management or change control be being provided by some
other tool.
REFERENCES
This program is based on the algorithm in
An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations,
Eugene W. Myers, TR 85-6, 10-April-1985, Department
of Computer Science, The University of Arizona,
Tuscon, Arizona 85721.
See also:
A File Comparison Program, Webb Miller and Eugene
W. Myers, Software Practice and Experience, Volume
15, No. 11, November 1985.
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BUILDING
For complete instructions for host to build these
programs, see the BUILDING file included in this
distribution.
ARCHIVE SITE
The latest version of fhist is available on the Web from:
URL: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
File: fhist.html # The FHist page.
File: fhist-1.6.README # Description, from the tar file
File: fhist-1.6.lsm # Description, in LSM format
File: fhist-1.6.spec # RedHat package spec
File: fhist-1.6.tar.Z # The complete source.
FHist is also carried by sunsite.unc.edu in its Linux
archives. You will be able to find FHist on any of its
mirrors.
URL: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/vc/
File: fhist-1.6.README # Description, from the tar file
File: fhist-1.6.lsm # Description, in LSM format
File: fhist-1.6.spec # RedHat package spec
File: fhist-1.6.tar.Z # The complete source.
This site is extensively mirrored around the world, so
look for a copy near you (you will get much better
response).
COPYRIGHT
version 1.6.D001
Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999 Peter Miller; All rights reserved.
This program is derived from a work
Copyright (C) 1990 David I. Bell.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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AUTHORS
Peter Miller Web: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp
/\/\* E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
David I. Bell Web: uhttp://www.canb.auug.org.au/~dbell
Internet: dbell@canb.auug.org.au
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RELEASE NOTES
For excruciating detail, and also acknowledgements of
those who generously sent me feedback, please see the
etc/CHANGES.1.6 file included in this distribution.
A number of features and bug fixes have been added to
fhist with this release. A few of them are detailed here:
Version 1.6
* An RPM spec file has been added to the distribution.
* The code is now more robust about what various UNIX
systems return from pathconf().
* A bug with the ``fcomp -blank'' option has been fixed.
Version 1.5
* Binary files are now detected on input, and the
utilities file gracefully with a warning or error message,
as appropriate.
* Some buffer over-run bugs have been fixed.
* Several improvements have been made to the portability.
Version 1.4
* The install and build procedures have been made more
robust, and they take note of more of the information
provided by GNU Autoconf.
* The error messages have been internationalized, so it is
now possible to obtain error messages in your native
language. (If you would like to contribute with error
message translations, please contact the author.)
* An LSM description has been added, along with a HTML
page to present it all nicely at the archive site.
* A RedHat Package Manager spec file has been added, so
that a RedHat package can be created. The spec file is in
the standard distribution.
Version 1.3
This version was not distributed at all.
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Version 1.2
This version was not distributed very widely.
* The non-standard isblank function is no longer used, it
cause too many portability problems.
* The use of pathconf is not more robust for more
operating systems.
Version 1.1
* The fhist package now uses a shell script called
configure to configure itself. This script is generated
using the GNU Autoconf utility. This should make fhist
significantly easier to configure, and significantly more
portable.
* A bug has been fixed in the conflict reporting of the
fmerge program. It now correctly opens the conflicts
file.
* The fhist program now uses pathconf(2) to determine file
name length limits.
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