Re: Feature request: When revisioning config files... (Brian Cady)

[David Levner]

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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From: Brian Cady <Brian413Cady@proton.me>

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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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