Rcs Branching


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rcs, check in new version as a branch 
:rcs changes the latest wrong-do version as a previous branch 
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:rcs branching 
Check out & lock 
Check in 
Trying History 

rcs, check in new version as a branch 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 6 Dec 2002 20:54:32 GMT
>When using rcs to do the version control, sometimes I know the new
>changes would not work, but I still like to keep it as a historical
>reference. So I'd like to make it a branch version of the previous
>one instead of a new version, so that I don't need to check in this
>bad one and revoke the last good one as the newiest version.

If the current version is, say, 2.25, then use

ci -r2.25.1 filename

Neil W Rickert @niu.edu