RCS

Getting started

To get started, you need to make a subdirectory named RCS within the directory where you actually do your work. for example, if you're working in a directory called /home/kev/corpus, you will:

Checking a file in for the first time

You do the initial check-in for a file using the command ci. You are prompted to enter a description of the file:

babel>ci junk.txt
RCS/junk.txt,v <-- junk.txt
enter description, terminated with single '.' or end of file:
NOTE: This is NOT the log message!
>>

You then enter a description of the file. When you're finished, hit enter to go to a new line, then type a single period, and then hit enter again:

babel>ci junk.txt
RCS/junk.txt,v <-- junk.txt
enter description, terminated with single '.' or end of file:
NOTE: This is NOT the log message!
>> this is just a junk file that i created to illustrate the use of rcs.
>> .
initial revision: 1.1
done
babel>

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