vc-annotate and SCCS

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

skip at pobox.com writes:

 > I use vc (both the old at work and Ville's new version at home).  I
 > occasionally annotate files in our CVS repository ("who's to blame for that
 > boneheaded mistake?" - usually me ;-), but we have a few files which are
 > still in SCCS.  As far as I know SCCS doesn't have any sort of annotate
 > command.  When I execute vc-annotate on an SCCS-managed file it responds
 > 
 >     File /x/y/z is not under version control
 > 
 > That's almost certainly the wrong error message.  I can check the file out,
 > check it back in, etc.

This is probably a symptom of breakage in replace-match, which
recently was fixed in CVS.

 > This is the old vc (whatever comes with 21.5.28), not the new.

VC itself is a package, it doesn't come with the core distribution.