RCS Intro - Revision Control System for Linux/UNIX

First step:

Pick a working directory and add a link to the RCS repository.

      cd working_directory
      mkdir RCS
      ln -s /home/Project/src/RCS RCS
      

This links your working directory to the RCS repository.

Checkout:

      co -l file.c

In this case, the latest version of the file "file.c" will be placed in your current working directory and "locked" from use by other programmers.

To checkout a particular (previous) version:

      co -r1.2 file.c

Check out for reading not updating and locking:

 
      co -u file.c

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History/Status:

To view file info:

      rlog -b file.c

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Quit / Clean-up:

Cleanup, don't commit changes:

      rcsclean -u *.c 

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Check-in / Commit:

When done editing the file, check-in (commit) your changes:

     ci file.c

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Diff:

      rcsdiff file.c 

This will compare the version of the file in your working directory with that of the original you checked out.

      rcsdiff -r1.2 file.c

Compare current working version with version 1.2.

The following will compare the two revisions of the file.

      rcsdiff -r1.1 -r1.2 file.c 

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RCS Information - man pages on rcsintro, rcs, co, ci, ident, rcsclean, rcsdiff, rcsmerge, ident, rlog, merge.

Links:

• RCS HOWTO
• CVS vs RCS HOWTO