Brian,
I can't speak for the RCS maintainers about incorporating your suggestions into
RCS. I have found it convenient to write wrapper scripts that improve my RCS
experience. For example, my scripts contain a 'putlock' command that stores a
revision of a file and immediately locks the file so I can continue working on
it. I also have an 'edit' command that locks a file and opens it in a text
editor. It would be easy to combine these two commands to create a
'putlockedit' command.
For me, the biggest convenience is my 'put' command. When I type 'put
file.ext', rcsdiff is run on file.ext and its output is written into a
temporary file that opens in a text editor. I then review all the changes I've
made since the last revision and write a multi-line description of my changes.
Once I save the temporary file and close the text editor, file.txt is unlocked
and my description of the changes is recorded in the RCS file.
David Levner
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1. Feature request: When revisioning config files... (Brian Cady)
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:42:38 +0000
From: Brian Cady <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Feature request: When revisioning config files...
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...it would be great if there was an option to leave the config source file
in place when storing a version, instead of deleting the source file. In this
way the to-be-modified config file could then be edited in safety, knowing that
one could fall back to the back-up in /RCS/.
Even better would be an option which would open the config file in
emacs/vim/nano/etc at the same time as storing the old version at /RCS/. In
this way only one step would get one to modifying config files while backing up
the old version. One might then rapidly and reversably attempt modification to
fix a config problem.
Brian
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