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3.14.2 Validation Warnings

Some possible problems with SCCS files are not definitively errors. In these situations, val will emit a warning message but the validation will not fail (that is, if there are no other problems the return value will be zero). An explanation of the possible warnings appears below.

WARNING: date for version 1.1 is later than the date for version 1.2
This message indicates that a delta exists in the history file where the "parent" delta has a delta creation time which is later than the creation time of the "child" delta. This is a warning only because the delta creation time is measured in local time, and so if two developers with different time locale settings both edit the file in a short period of time, this can happen. If all the developers who create deltas in a history file use the same timezone settings, this should not happen.

Unknown special comment intro
This message is displayed when a "c" control line is seen in the body of the SCCS file in which the initial "c" is not followed immediately by a space. Lines of this type are used as an extension mechanism by some other SCCS implementations, notably the BitKeeper suite.



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