Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Automagic checkin (RCS - ci) before patch Message-ID: <1991Jun5.050932.5219@twinsun.com> Date: 5 Jun 91 05:09:32 GMT References: <1065@camco.Celestial.COM> Sender: usenet@twinsun.com Organization: Twin Sun, Inc Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: twinsun bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes: >I've found the easiest way to handle patches is to maintain a >pure copy of the sources (not checked in to RCS locally) for >patching purposes. This way I don't get a bunch of patches >failed becauses of different RCS Revision numbers. This is >particularly true with cvs which checks in outside sources on the >1.1.1 tree regardless of its original revision numbers. If you have RCS 5.5, you can use `co -ko' to check out the file just as it was originally checked in. This avoids the revision number blues when patching. `co -ko' works even if the file was checked in by a pre-5.5 version of RCS.