Automagic checkin (RCS - ci) before patch

[Bill Campbell]

In <srp.675705482 at babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu> srp at babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) writes:

>Does anyone have a script or patch to "patch" that does an automagic
>checkin/checkout (basically ci -l) on a file before applying a patch?  I
>find myself doing this manually quite often, and with the recent patches to
>cap60, the situation has again presented itself.

>	Just trying to be organized (yeah, right, *organized hacking?*)

I'm using cvs (on top of rcs) and use it's checkin program as I
get revisions to third-party sources (with some pre-processing
required because of file names > 12 characters on SysV).  Checkin
provides warnings about locally modified files and gives you an
easy way to merge those changes with the new sources.

I've found the easiest way to handle patches is to maintain a
pure copy of the sources (not checked in to RCS locally) for
patching purposes.  This way I don't get a bunch of patches
failed becauses of different RCS Revision numbers.  This is
particularly true with cvs which checks in outside sources on the
1.1.1 tree regardless of its original revision numbers.

Currently I'm using cvs 1.2 and there may be a better solution to
this in the current release, but I haven't had time to update rcs
and cvs to the most recent release.

I would appreciate it if someone has a better suggestion for
handling this problem since I'm not totally happy with the way
I'm doing it here.

Bill
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