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NAME
       rccs - apply RCS commands to sets of files

SYNOPSIS
       rccs command [ options ] [ filename and/or directory ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       rccs is a perl script that tries to emulate the Berkeley SCCS program
       for RCS.  If your fingers know how to type commands to SCCS, just do
       the same thing to rccs.

       A subset of the SCCS commands are implemented, the ones that I use.
       Some new commands have been added.  It is easy to add more commands,
       see the Example routine at the bottom of rccs to see how.

       This interface does not require a list of files/directories for most
       commands; the implied list is *,v and/or RCS/*,v.  Destructive
       commands, such as clean -f, unedit, unget, do not have an implied list.
       In other words, rccs diffs is the same as rccs diffs RCS but rccs
       unedit is not the same as rccs unedit RCS.

COMMANDS
       options Note that RCS options are typically passed through to RCS.  The
               options that made sense to SCCS commands are translated to RCS
               options.

       ci        Alias for delta.  Checks in files.

       clean [-e] [-f] [-d|y'message'] [files]
                 Without any arguments, this command removes all files that
                 are read only and have an associated RCS file.  With the -e
                 argument, clean removes files that have been checked out
                 writable but have not been modified.  The -d|y|m option may
                 be combined with -e to check in the set of files that have
                 been modified.  With the -f option, clean removes all working
                 files, including files that have been modified since the
                 check out.  Be careful.

       co        Alias for get.  Checks out files.

       create [-y|d'message'] [-g] files
                 Initial check in of files to the RCS system.  The files are
                 then checked out readonly unless the -g option is present.
                 The -y or -d options may be used to set the descriptive text
                 message.  Differs from SCCS in that the original files are
                 not preserved.

       deledit   Alias for delta followed by a get -e.

       delget    Alias for delta followed by a get.

       delta [-y|d'message'] [-q] [files]
                 Check in a delta of the file.  -q is changed to RCS' -s and
                 means to be quiet about hwat is happening.  -y'message' or
                 -d'message' or -m'message' all get sent through to RCS as the
                 check in message.  No other arguments are translated.

       diffs [-C|c] [-r<rev>] [-sdiff] [files]
                 Shows changes between the working files and the RCS file.
                 Note that the files do not need to be checked out, only
                 writable.  -C or -c means do a context diff.  -sdiff means do
                 a side by side diff.  The sdiff option will figure out your
                 screen width if it knows how - see the source to make this
                 work on your system.

       edit      Alias for get -e.

       enter     Alias for create -g.

       fix       Useful if you just checked in the file and then realized you
                 forgot something.  The fix command will remove the top delta
                 from the history and leave you with an editable working file
                 with the top delta as the contents.

       get [-e] [-p] [-k] [-s] [files]
                 Get, or check out, the file.  Without any options, get just
                 gets the latest revision of the RCS file in the working file.
                 With -e, check out the file writable.  With -p, send the file
                 to stdout.  With -k, supress expansion of key words.  With
                 -s, be quiet about what is happening.

       help      Get a brief help screen of information.

       history [files]
                 Print the RCS history (my format) of the specified files.

       info [files]
                 Print the list of files being edited.

       print     Alias for a loop that prints the history of each file
                 followed by the contents of the file.

       prs       Alias for history.

       prt       Alias for history.

       unedit    Alias for clean -f.

       unget     Alias for clean -f.

GLOBAL OPTIONS
       -debug    Turn on debugging.  Used when debugging rccs itself.

       -verbose  Be more verbose about what is happening.

EXAMPLES
       To start off, add a bunch of files to RCS:
           rccs create -y'my program name' myprog.c myprog.h
       Now let's edit them all:
           rccs get -e
       If we didn't change anything, the following gives us a clean directory:
           rccs clean -e
       If we changed myprog.h, the following gives us a clean directory after
       checking in myprog.h:
           rccs clean -e -d'some message'
       If we want to see what we changed:
           rccs diffs

SEE ALSO
       RCS commands, SCCS commands, sdiff(1), perl(1).

TODO
       It would be nice to implement a -i option that prompted before each
       action, especially the destructive ones.

lm@sgi.com                         Nov, 1995                           RCCS(1)