Re: RCS Enhancement - deleted file handling

[Aaron S. Hawley]

I never knew about this feature in CVS.  I thought you simply used `cvs
remove'.  It's worth adopting in my RCS work.

Concerning your proposal, what is wrong with simply specifying the "dead"
state by doing:

  co -r -sexp RCS/*

or:

  co -r -srel RCS/*

If you're working on a release.

RCS doesn't check-out the files having a "dead" state in either case.

I'd prefer definining an alias or writing a wrapper shell script that
explicity specifies the state to get the behavior rather patching my RCS
install.

If you want your patch to get far, you may want to use context (-c) or
unified (-u) format.

/a

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Brian Lloyd wrote:

> The following patch updates RCS 5.7 to include support for the dead
> state, as used by CVS.  The second patch shown updates the man pages to
> reflect the new functionality.  The dead state allows an RCS repository
> to keep the files of sources that are no longer used while not checking
> out unneeded files with a command like co -r RCS/*.