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The following is a concise listing of commands and options. It assumes
you already know what a command does and how the options work -- you just
need to be reminded.
Check a locked file back into RCS.
-u
-
after check in, check it out again locked.
-l
-
after check in, check it out again locked.
-r
-
assign the revision the specified revision number.
-f
-
force a deposit even if the two versions are not different.
-k
-
use already existing keyword values for revision information.
-q
-
quiet mode.
-m
-
use the following text as the message.
-n
-
assign a symbolic name to this revision
-N
-
assign a symbolic name to this revision. Overides a previous assignment.
-s
-
assing the given state to this file
-t
-
use the named file for the descriptive text. If a file is omitted, the
user is prompted for the text.
Check a file out from RCS.
-l
-
locks the checked out revision.
-p
-
prints the retrieved revision on the standard output.
-q
-
quiet mode.
-d
-
check out the newest revision older than date.
-r
-
check out the specified revision
-s
-
check out the latest revision with the specified state.
-w
-
retrieves the latest revision checked in by the user with the given login
name.
-j
-
generates a new revision which is the join of the given revisions.
Change RCS file attributes.
-i
-
create and initialize a new RCS file.
-a
-
append the following login names to the access list.
-A
-
append the login names on the access list of the specifed file to the
file being checked in.
-e
-
erase the login names from the access list.
-c
-
set the comment leader to the given string.
-l
-
locks the revision. (
co -l is preferred)
-u
-
unlocks the specified revision.
-L
-
sets locking to strict (the default).
-U
-
sets locking to non-strict (discouraged).
-n
-
assigns symbolic name to a specified revision
-N
-
assigns symbolic name to a specified revision. Overides previous uses of
the name.
-S
-
similar to
-n except the most recent revision on the trunk is
assigned the symbolic name.
-o
-
deletes ("outdates") the revisions in the give range.
-q
-
quiet mode.
-s
-
sets the state attribute to the specified revision.
-t
-
writes descriptive text into the RCS file.
Compare revisions of RCS files.
-r
-
Compare the working version of the file with the specified revision. If
two
-r flags are given, then the two specified revisions are
compared.
-b
-
ignore trailing blanks and treat all other strings of blanks as
equivalent.
-c
-
produce a context diff.
-e
-
produce a script of commands for
ed to recreate the files.
-f
-
similar to
-e except in the opposite order (not useful for
ed).
-h
-
does a fast, half-hearted job.
Merges revisions of a file. Difficult to use.
Print log messages and other information about RCS files.
-L
-
ignores RCS files that have no locks set.
-R
-
only prints the name of the RCS file
-h
-
prints only the RCS file name, working file name, head, access list,
locks, symbolic names and suffix.
-t
-
same as
-h, plus the descriptive text is printed.
-d
-
prints information about revisions within the checkin date/time in the
ranges given.
-l
-
prints information about locked revisions.
-r
-
prints information about revisions given in the comma seperated list of
revisions.
-s
-
prints information about revisions whose state attributes match the given
state.
-w
-
prints information about revisions checked in by users with login names
appearing in the list.
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