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authorSteve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>2000-01-01 00:20:17 +0000
committerSteve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>2000-01-01 00:20:17 +0000
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Adding fhist version 1.1.
Utilities to maintain file history, do file comparisions and merges. PR: 6445 Submitted by: jkoshy
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+This package contains three source control utilities from Peter Miller
+<millerp@canb.auug.org.au>:
+
+ fhist: Keeps track of versions of a file.
+ fcomp: Compares two versions of a file.
+ fmerge: Merges together edits from two descendants of a file.
+
+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.
+
+- Koshy
+ <jkoshy@acm.org>