Re: forcing an rcs initial checkin

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

the systems group at my company explicitly uses rcs for revision control 
with any files on our servers. a lowly network guy like me has no say 
concerning cvs/rcs. but any script i write has to be able to check files 
in through rcs.

i actually found that the -m flag only works when you are checking in a 
file that has already been checked in at least once prior. i hadnt 
searched for 'initial' in the man page. once i did, i found the 
'-t-string' flag which allows you to specify the non-log entry message 
that rcs prompts for when a file is first checked into rcs. so it looks 
like i'll be using:

  ci -u -t-string"Brief overview of files usage on the server" foo.txt

-c


On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Kara Pritchard wrote:

> 
> If you just use -m and specify 'foo', it won't prompt you.
> 
> Why are you using RCS instead of CVS anyhow?
> 
> -Kara
> 
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Charles Menzes wrote:
> 
> > is there a method of forcing a checking with 'ci' that will not prompt for 
> > the initial entry that is in addition to the log? i see that -m allows the 
> > specification of a log message, but i dont see a flag to avoid the initial 
> > entry.
> > 
> > thanks -c
> > 
> 


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