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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.sources.d
Subject: Tiny, but useful, patch for RCS 4.3
Message-ID: <27822F70.E5A@tct.uucp>
Date: 2 Jan 91 19:07:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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With the default RCS behavior, it is often difficult to perform mass
changes on the current revision of many files simultaneously.  This
one-line patch makes the string "HEAD" always refer to the head of the
revision history, i.e. the current revision.


Index: rcsrev.c
***************
*** 575,578 ****
--- 575,579 ----
  {
          register struct assoc * next;
+         if (strcmp(id,"HEAD") == 0 && Head) return Head->num;
          next = Symbols;
          while (next!=nil) {


I told you it was tiny.  :-)
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
"Please don't send me any more of yer scandalous email, Mr. Salzenberg..."
		-- Bruce Becker