SCCS total line limit being reached.

[Michael_120]

We are running SCCS for source control on HP/UX 11.0 and seem to be running into a line limitation of 99,999 lines. Is there any way around this limit?
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Using RCS is not an option for us.
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Thank you.

[Vincent Fleming]

You have a single .c with over 100,000 lines??????

YIKES!

In the old days, all of UNIX was less than that!

Can't you break that into multiple .c's?

Otherwise, you can download a copy of CSSC from GNU (http://www.gnu.org/directory/All_Packages_in_Directory/) and try to hack it to handle more than 99,999 lines, if it caries that same restriction. CSSC is a SCCS clone, and is free.

Good luck,

Vince

[Michael_120]

Thanks Vince.

[Brian Kinney]

As someone else said "Yikes!"

First, are we at 100K lines in edits, or in the actual source?

If the source is huge, then start breaking out those functions into libraries (more .c and .a files for you!) It'd be smart to look and see which functions haven't recently been modified, and move those into

If it's just that the original file has had a LONG history of modifications, it may be time to make a new "version."

Let's say you are on rev. 200 of the .c file. Do an sccsget on -r 198 and save the file.
Do an sccsget on -r 199 and save it as a different name.
Do an sccsget on -r 200 and save it off as a unique name as well.

Now, have your sccs admin RENAME your s.file.c, so you can ADD -r 198 version as a brand new instance of file.c.

Then, check the file out, replace it with -r 199 version, check it in. Do it all over again with version 200.

Congratulations! You now have a file which has only 3 revisions of history, PLUS you can go back to the oldfile.c anytime you please to review other edits without affecting any compilations.