Mercurial > emacs
changeset 2275:c70f9af7c66a
Added documentation, made the change comment for old versions more
useful.
| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> |
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| date | Fri, 19 Mar 1993 23:40:27 +0000 |
| parents | 7afd5e41ed30 |
| children | 68328c3af38f |
| files | lib-src/rcs-checkin |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lib-src/rcs-checkin Fri Mar 19 23:04:44 1993 +0000 +++ b/lib-src/rcs-checkin Fri Mar 19 23:40:27 1993 +0000 @@ -1,5 +1,28 @@ #!/bin/sh +# This script accepts any number of file arguments and checks them into RCS. +# +# Arguments which are detectably either RCS masters (with names ending in ,v) +# or Emacs version files (with names of the form foo.~<number>~) are ignored. +# For each file foo, 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 text. 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. +# +# This script is intended to be used to convert files with an old-Emacs-style +# version history for use with VC (the Emacs 19 version-control interface), +# which likes to use RCS as its back end. It was written by Paul Eggert +# and revised/documented for use with VC by Eric S. Raymond, Mr 19 1993. + case $# in 0) echo "rcs-checkin: usage: rcs-checkin file ..." @@ -63,7 +86,7 @@ mv "$oldfile" "$file" || exit ls_l=`ls -l "$file"` || exit owner=-w`expr " $ls_l" : " $ls_owner_pattern"` || owner= - ci -d -l -q $owner "$file" </dev/null || exit + echo "Formerly ${oldfile}" | ci -d -l -q $owner "$file" || exit done # Bring $file back from $file.~-~, and check it in.