[TriLUG] RCS

[Aaron S. Joyner]

H. Crissman wrote:

>I am relatively new to RCS. Is it supposed to change file permissions and make 
>them read only? Here is what I have done so far.
>
>1. mkdir RCS in ~/scripts
>2. ci -u -t-Baseline * (check in all my scripts)
>3. rcs -U * (turn off file locking. I am the only one using this system)
>
>Now files that were rwx-rwx-rx are r-xr-xr-x. That seems odd to me?
>
>Thanks,
>
>H. Crissman
>  
>
Both Joel and Tanner have very good points, please read and understand 
their posts.  Having said that, and not recovering their ground, you 
might consider a script I've made available called cvim, which resolves 
all of these problems nicely, with no additional software or setup, by 
wrapping up the RCS functions for you into an easy-to-swallow package.  
This was written for use at a location where I was previously employed, 
to assist with the fact that I required every config file on every 
system to have an RCS history maintained for it.  It worked quite well, 
even for the non-technical users.

Basic information and the script can be found here:
http://www.joyner.ws/cvim/

Aaron S. Joyner