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Re: Editing RCS log message?
From: |
Colin Brough |
Subject: |
Re: Editing RCS log message? |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:01:15 +0100 |
> Hello. I'm trying to edit several RCS log messages using the command:
>
> rcs -m115.6:'This is a test.' Test.java
>
> but it will not accept the string 'This is a test.' as valid input and
> just replaces the log message with "This".
>
> Does anyone know how I can get this to work? Taking a file as input
> would also be helpful.
I know this is probably not what you want to hear, but it works for me!
> rlog instruct.tex
...
----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 1995/06/24 12:16:58; author: cmb; state: Exp; lines: +26 -3
More thorough.
----------------------------
** > rcs -m1.2:'Make instructions more thorough' instruct.tex
> rlog instruct.tex
...
----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 1995/06/24 12:16:58; author: cmb; state: Exp; lines: +26 -3
Make instructions more thorough
----------------------------
I'm on Linux, bash 1.14.7(1), I think the rcs is version 5.7.
> ident `which rcs`
/usr/bin/rcs:
$Id: rcsbase.h,v 5.20 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcs.c,v 5.21 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcslex.c,v 5.19 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcssyn.c,v 5.15 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcsrev.c,v 5.10 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcsutil.c,v 5.20 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcsgen.c,v 5.16 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcsedit.c,v 5.19 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcskeys.c,v 5.4 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcsmap.c,v 5.3 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcsfnms.c,v 5.16 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcskeep.c,v 5.10 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: maketime.c,v 5.11 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: partime.c,v 5.13 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
$Id: rcstime.c,v 1.4 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp $
Cheers
Colin
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