Automagic checkin (RCS - ci) before patch
Paul Eggert
eggert at twinsun.com
Wed Jun 5 15:09:32 AEST 1991
bill at camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>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.
If you have RCS 5.5, you can use `co -ko' to check out the file just as
it was originally checked in. This avoids the revision number blues
when patching. `co -ko' works even if the file was checked in by a
pre-5.5 version of RCS.
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