Type manager for manual page source files
One
kind of file supported is a manual page source file, which is coded in nroff(1) format
(see Files used in a typical project ).
A type manager for this kind of file may have these characteristics:
- It stores all versions in compressed form in separate data containers, like the z_whole_copy type manager.
- It implements version-comparison (compare method) by running diff on formatted manual pages instead of the source versions.
The basic strategy is to use most of the z_whole_copy type manager methods. The compare method uses nroff(1) to format the versions before displaying their differences.