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.TH "\*(n) -New_Project_Alias" 1 \*(N) "Reference Manual" ""
.SH NAME
aegis new project alias \- create a new project alias
.XX "aenpa(1)" "create a new project alias"
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B \*(n)
.B \-New_Project_Alias
[
.IR option \&...
]
.I project-name
.I alias-name
.br
.B \*(n)
.B -Help
.br
.B \*(n)
.B -VERSion
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.I "\*(n) -New_Project_Alias"
command is used to
create a projects alias, so that branches of projects may be referred
by a shorter or more specific name.
.PP
The project name \fImust\fP be given on the command line;
the default project is not sufficient.
The project named may be a top-level project, or it may be a branch
(to any depth of branch).
.PP
The new alias name must also be given on the command line,
and it must be the \fIsecond\fP name.
Project aliases have fewer limits than project names:
they must not need shell quoting, that's all.
.\"
.\"	aegis - project change supervisor
.\"	Copyright (C) 1999, 2003, 2005-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\"	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\"	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\"	the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\"	(at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\"	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\"	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\"	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\"	GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\"	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\"	along with this program. If not, see
.\"	<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.\"
.SS Example
Aliases may be used in may ways.  The most common is to give a particular
release a code name.  You would do this by saying
.RS
.ft CW
aenpa example.4.2 sydney
.ft R
.RE
This would make \[lq]sydney\[rq] an alias for the \[lq]example.4.2\[rq] branch.
.PP
Another use for aliases is to have a fixed alias for your active branch,
so that your developer team does not need to change their default project,
even though the branch number moves on for each release.  You could say
.RS
.ft CW
aenpa example.4.2 example.cur
.ft R
.RE
This would make \[lq]example.cur\[rq] an alias for the
\[lq]example.4.2\[rq] branch.
When this was finished, and 4.3 started, a project administrator could say
.RS
.ft CW
aerpa example.cur
.br
aenpa example.4.3 example.cur
.ft R
.RE
Now \[lq]example.cur\[rq] is an alias for the \[lq]example.4.3\[rq]
branch, but the
developers need only reference \[lq]example.cur\[rq] to always work on the
right branch.
.SH OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
.\"
.\"	aegis - project change supervisor
.\"	Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\"	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\"	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\"	the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\"	(at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\"	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\"	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\"	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\"	GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\"	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\"	along with this program. If not, see
.\"	<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.\"
.TP 8n
.B -Help
.br
This option may be used to obtain more information about how to use the
.I \*(n)
program.
.\"
.\"	aegis - project change supervisor
.\"	Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 2006-2008 Peter Miller.
.\"
.\"	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\"	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\"	the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\"	(at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\"	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\"	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\"	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\"	GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\"	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\"	along with this program. If not, see
.\"	<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.\"
.r)
.PP
All options may be abbreviated;
the abbreviation is documented as the upper case letters,
all lower case letters and underscores (_) are optional.
You must use consecutive sequences of optional letters.
.PP
All options are case insensitive,
you may type them in upper case or lower case or a combination of both,
case is not important.
.PP
For example:
the arguments "-project, "-PROJ" and "-p" are
all interpreted to mean the \fB-Project\fP option.
The argument "-prj" will not be understood,
because consecutive optional characters were not supplied.
.PP
Options and other command line arguments may be
mixed arbitrarily on the command line,
after the function selectors.
.br
.ne 4
.PP
The GNU long option names are understood.
Since all option names for
.I \*(n)
are long,
this means ignoring the extra leading '-'.
The "\fB--\fIoption\fB=\fIvalue\fR" convention is also understood.
.SH ERRORS
It is an error if the old project does not exist.
.br
It is an error if the current user is not a project administrator.
.br
It is an error if the new alias name look like a branch name.
.br
It is an error if the new alias contains unprintable characters.
.\"
.\"	aegis - project change supervisor
.\"	Copyright (C) 1991-1993, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\"	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\"	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\"	the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\"	(at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\"	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\"	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\"	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\"	GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\"	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\"	along with this program. If not, see
.\"	<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.\"
.SH EXIT STATUS
The
.I \*(n)
command will exit with a status of 1 on any error.
The
.I \*(n)
command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors.
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See \fIaegis\fP(1) for a list of environment variables which may affect
this command.
See \fIaepconf\fP(5) for the project configuration file's
\fIproject_\%specific\fP field for how to set environment variables for
all commands executed by Aegis.
.SH SEE ALSO
.TP 8n
\fIaerpa\fP(1)
Remove project alias.
.\"
.\"	aegis - project change supervisor
.\"	Copyright (C) 1991-1995, 1997, 2006-2008 Peter Miller
.\"
.\"	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\"	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\"	the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
.\"	(at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\"	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\"	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\"	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.\"	GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\"	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\"	along with this program. If not, see
.\"	<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.\"
.br
.ne 2i
.SH COPYRIGHT
.ds v) 4.24.3
.ds V) 4.24.3.D001
.ds o) 0
.ds p) 4.25
.ds u) 4.24
.ds Y) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
\*(n) version \*(V)
.br
.if t .ds C) \(co
.if n .ds C) (C)
Copyright \*(C) \*(Y) Peter Miller
.PP
The \*(n) program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
for details use the '\fI\*(n) -VERSion License\fP' command.
This is free software
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
for details use the '\fI\*(n) -VERSion License\fP' command.
.br
.ne 1i
.SH AUTHOR
.TS
tab(;);
l r l.
Peter Miller;E-Mail:;millerp@canb.auug.org.au
\f(CW/\e/\e*\fR;WWW:;http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
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