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Re: RCS/SCCS: grouping mechanism?

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From: Michael Salmon
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 09:11
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In article <1992Oct29.182305.14061@brtph560.bnr.ca>, 
chrisf@brtph316.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Chris Fulmer) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct28.074024.14827@news.tu-graz.ac.at>,
|> tab@piis05.joanneum.ac.at (Behnam Tabatabai) writes:
|> > Is there a possibility to check out only a subset of files managed by
|> > RCS or SCCS by assigning a symbolic names to different subsets? 
|> > 
|> 
|> Yes there is in RCS at least.  Look at the -N and -n
|> options to the rcs command.  It's then possible to check
|> out a version of a file by specifying its symbolic name.
|> 
|> The only thing that you'd need to do is make a short shell
|> script which looped through all the files, checking out the
|> version specified by the symolic name of each file.

The original poster wanted to group files the other way, not by
revision but by name, so that if I say co xyz where xyz is a group name
then I will get abc, def, and ghi which I previously defined as
belonging to xyz. IMHO this is only useful in systems like VMS that
don't have make by default.

-- 

Michael Salmon

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