NAME
rcs-checkin - accepts any number of file arguments and checks them into
RCS
SYNOPSIS
rcs-checkin files ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the rcs-checkin, command. This
manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because
the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has
documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
The following is taken from the script itself.
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,
Mar 19 1993.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Most of the
text was written by the rcs-checkin authors Paul Eggert and Eric S.
Raymond.
RCS-CHECKIN(1)