NAME¶
rcs-checkin - check files into RCS
SYNOPSIS¶
rcs-checkin [
FILE...]
DESCRIPTION¶
rcs-checkin is a helper script for checking files into RCS. This program
is distributed with
GNU Emacs.
This program converts files with an old
Emacs-style version history for
use with the
Emacs 19 version control interface
VC, which likes
to use RCS as its back end.
For each file to be processed, the script looks for
Emacs version files
related to it. These files are checked in as deltas, oldest first, so that the
contents of the file itself becomes the latest revision in the master.
The first line of each file is used as its description. The file itself is not
deleted, as under
VC with
vc-keep-workfiles at its default of
t, but all the version files are.
If an argument file is already version-controlled under RCS, any version files
are added to the list of deltas and deleted, and then the workfile is checked
in again as the latest version. This is probably not quite what was wanted,
and is the main reason VC doesn't simply call this to do checkins.
In order to make it easier to use
rcs-checkin *, files which are
detectably either RCS masters (with names ending in
,v) or Emacs
version files (with names containing
~) are ignored.
OPTIONS¶
The program accepts no options.
SEE ALSO¶
The Emacs version control interface is documented in the GNU Emacs manual, which
you can read using
Info, either from Emacs or as a standalone program.
AUTHORS¶
rcs-checkin was originally written by Paul Eggert. It was revised for use
with
GNU Emacs VC by Eric S. Raymond.
COPYING¶
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document
provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all
copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document
under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting
derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical
to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into
another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except
that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the
Free Software Foundation.