-#!/bin/sh
+#! /bin/sh
+
+# This script accepts any number of file arguments and checks them into RCS.
+#
+# Arguments which are detectably either RCS masters (with names ending in ,v)
+# or Emacs version files (with names of the form foo.~<number>~) are ignored.
+# For each file foo, the script looks for Emacs version files related to it.
+# These files are checked in as deltas, oldest first, so that the contents of
+# the file itself becomes the latest revision in the master.
+#
+# The first line of each file is used as its description text. The file itself
+# is not deleted, as under VC with vc-keep-workfiles at its default of t, but
+# all the version files are.
+#
+# If an argument file is already version-controlled under RCS, any version
+# files are added to the list of deltas and deleted, and then the workfile
+# is checked in again as the latest version. This is probably not quite
+# what was wanted, and is the main reason VC doesn't simply call this to
+# do checkins.
+#
+# This script is intended to be used to convert files with an old-Emacs-style
+# version history for use with VC (the Emacs 19 version-control interface),
+# which likes to use RCS as its back end. It was written by Paul Eggert
+# and revised/documented for use with VC by Eric S. Raymond, Mar 19 1993.
case $# in
0)
for file
do
- # Check that file is readable.
- <$file || exit
-
# Make it easier to say `rcs-checkin *'
# by ignoring file names that already contain `~', or end in `,v'.
case $file in
# Ignore non-files too.
test -f "$file" || continue
+ # Check that file is readable.
+ test -r "$file" || exit
+
# If the RCS file does not already exist,
# initialize it with a description from $file's first line.
rlog -R "$file" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
mv "$oldfile" "$file" || exit
ls_l=`ls -l "$file"` || exit
owner=-w`expr " $ls_l" : " $ls_owner_pattern"` || owner=
- ci -d -l -q $owner "$file" </dev/null || exit
+ echo "Formerly ${oldfile}" | ci -d -l -q $owner "$file" || exit
done
# Bring $file back from $file.~-~, and check it in.