Functionally RCS and SCCS (up to revision ) are similar, with SCCS now having RCS uses fewer intermediate files while applying a delta to a history file . Reviewer: John R. Levine. SCCS and RCS are two classic sets of Unix tools. They both do the same thing, namely, track changes to text files by keeping. A version control file contains the original file (called a g-file in SCCS) together with all the changes, or deltas, that have been applied to it. Each delta is.
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You can also use rcsdiff to compare a working file against some revision other than the one it started from or to compare two different Ap;lying file revisions to each other.
Never insert whitespace between an option letter and sccss value–let them appear as one argument on the command line. When -u is given, if rcsclean removes a working file, it also removes any lock corresponding to it. Command lines like this one become useful when you put files into separate trees according to their type. This is the same picture we presented as Figurebut with the “bubbles” annotated to show which RCS command actually implements each operation.
Always expands the identification markers keywords.
In fact, you can use -t on any check-in, not just the first one, to change an archive’s description. This command will remove any lock you currently have set in the RCS file.
Revision Control: Managing Source Files with RCS or SCCS
You might use -p if you wanted to have more than one revision of a file checked out simultaneously–you could check out all but one revision with -p into rcz with special names. Run rcs just by naming the file you want to discard, preceded by the option -u for “unlock”:.
Combining deltas can reduce storage requirements.
You extract a working file from an existing RCS file with the command co for “check-out”. If a writable file already exists with the same name as the working file that co is trying to create, the command will warn you of the file’s presence and ask you whether you want to appyling it. I wouldn’t be yelling if I didn’t think it was important.
If file is omitted, any such added text is deleted. A typical interaction might be. If you take this approach, though, you won’t want to be typing horrendously long command lines all the time.
Each one contains the description that was originally entered for that revision.
RCS – Revision Control System
Remember, too, that all of these commands employ an intelligent command-line interface that fairly well balances simplicity and cscs and can provide an advantage over SCCS. And only work on what you can manage. Abd the warning “NOTE: Prints the result of the merged files to the standard output; otherwise, the resulting merged file overwrites the working file.
You can give a description either as the value to -t or in a file, which you name using -t. Finally, we presented rcsclean to remove unmodified working files.
Locks the revision during file checkout to prevent overlapping modifications if several people work on the same file.
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So either of these command sequences would be equivalent to the original ci command we showed above: You create an RCS file with the command ci 1 for “check-in”. You can lock all deltas with the -fla flag, and you can unlock specific deltas with the -d flag. As we’ve seen, the ci command asks you for a description when you create an RCS file, as well as when you add a revision to one. If, for example, you requested the lock for revision 1.
So if a file is under source control, do not try to maintain changed copies of it manually i. As usual, you simply give on the crs line the name of the file you want to examine.
Assigns the same symbolic revision number to a given revision in all RCS files. If given, options change how the command works. Equivalent to the sccs unedit command.
As we’ll see, you sometimes have the choice of entering a description of an operation either at a prompt from the program you’re running or directly on the program’s command line.