On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Jon Radel wrote: > I was using RCS under 4.0-release when it started causing me grief. At > first I thought I'd been making typos in options, but I can replicate > what I *think* are two errors in behavior. I welcome being set right. > (And I did check the change notes for 4.0-current, but didn't see > anything to indicate that this had been worked on.) > > It has long been my habit to maintain every configuration file I "hand > edit" in RCS. This means that I generally use the sequence: > > co -l > ....make changes with editor.... > ci -u > ....allow the system to run with new settings.... > > However, OpenRCS 3.6 won't allow me to cleanly do a co -l when the file > exists (mod 444) and there's no lock. It complains that the file is > writeable (despite permissions being read only). Also, if I abort the > checkout it still places a lock on the file.
plus.html is a bit behind. these issues have been fixes recently in -current, AFAIKT. Check for example http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/rcs/co.c rev 1.100 and related commits. -Otto > > > > An example sequence of commands: > > > > $ touch test > $ ls -l test > -rw-r--r-- 1 jon wheel 0 Nov 27 11:20 test > $ ci -u test > RCS/test,v <-- test > enter description, terminated with single '.' or end of file: > NOTE: This is NOT the log message! > >> A test file > >> . > initial revision: 1.1 > done > $ ls -l > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 jon wheel 512 Nov 27 11:20 RCS > -r--r--r-- 1 jon wheel 0 Nov 27 11:20 test > $ ls -l RCS > total 4 > -r--r--r-- 1 jon wheel 188 Nov 27 11:20 test,v > $ rlog test > > RCS file: RCS/test,v > Working file: test > head: 1.1 > branch: > locks: strict > access list: > symbolic names: > keyword substitution: kv > total revisions: 1; selected revisions: 1 > description: > A test file > ---------------------------- > revision 1.1 > date: 2006/11/27 16:20:57; author: jon; state: Exp; > Initial revision > ============================================================================= > $ co -l test > RCS/test,v --> test > revision 1.1 (locked) > test exists; remove it? [ny](n): n > co: writable test exists; checkout aborted > $ ls -l > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 jon wheel 512 Nov 27 11:21 RCS > -r--r--r-- 1 jon wheel 0 Nov 27 11:20 test > $ rlog test > > RCS file: RCS/test,v > Working file: test > head: 1.1 > branch: > locks: strict > jon: 1.1 > access list: > symbolic names: > keyword substitution: kv > total revisions: 1; selected revisions: 1 > description: > A test file > ---------------------------- > revision 1.1 locked by: jon; > date: 2006/11/27 16:20:57; author: jon; state: Exp; > Initial revision > ============================================================================= > $ ci -V > OpenCVS RCS version 3.6 > $ co -V > OpenCVS RCS version 3.6 > $ rlog -V > OpenCVS RCS version 3.6 > $ > > > > With GNU RCS you can checkout a file that is not locked and is read-only: > > $ touch test > $ ls -l test > -rw-r--r-- 1 jon wheel 0 Nov 27 11:39 test > $ gci -u test > RCS/test,v <-- test > enter description, terminated with single '.' or end of file: > NOTE: This is NOT the log message! > >> A test file > >> . > initial revision: 1.1 > done > $ ls -l > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 jon wheel 512 Nov 27 11:39 RCS > -r--r--r-- 1 jon wheel 0 Nov 27 11:39 test > $ ls -l RCS > total 4 > -r--r--r-- 1 jon wheel 188 Nov 27 11:39 test,v > $ grlog test > > RCS file: RCS/test,v > Working file: test > head: 1.1 > branch: > locks: strict > access list: > symbolic names: > keyword substitution: kv > total revisions: 1; selected revisions: 1 > description: > A test file > ---------------------------- > revision 1.1 > date: 2006/11/27 16:39:47; author: jon; state: Exp; > Initial revision > ============================================================================= > $ gco -l test > RCS/test,v --> test > revision 1.1 (locked) > done > $ grlog test > > RCS file: RCS/test,v > Working file: test > head: 1.1 > branch: > locks: strict > jon: 1.1 > access list: > symbolic names: > keyword substitution: kv > total revisions: 1; selected revisions: 1 > description: > A test file > ---------------------------- > revision 1.1 locked by: jon; > date: 2006/11/27 16:39:47; author: jon; state: Exp; > Initial revision > ============================================================================= > > > > Also, in GNU RCS, if you abort a checkout of an unlocked file, the file > remains unlocked: > > $ grlog test > > RCS file: RCS/test,v > Working file: test > head: 1.1 > branch: > locks: strict > access list: > symbolic names: > keyword substitution: kv > total revisions: 1; selected revisions: 1 > description: > A test file > ---------------------------- > revision 1.1 > date: 2006/11/27 16:39:47; author: jon; state: Exp; > Initial revision > ============================================================================= > $ ls -l test > -r--r--r-- 1 jon wheel 0 Nov 27 11:41 test > $ chmod 644 test > $ gco -l test > RCS/test,v --> test > revision 1.1 (locked) > writable test exists; remove it? [ny](n): n > co: checkout aborted > $ grlog test > > RCS file: RCS/test,v > Working file: test > head: 1.1 > branch: > locks: strict > access list: > symbolic names: > keyword substitution: kv > total revisions: 1; selected revisions: 1 > description: > A test file > ---------------------------- > revision 1.1 > date: 2006/11/27 16:39:47; author: jon; state: Exp; > Initial revision > ============================================================================= > $ > > > > Thanks. > > --Jon Radel > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
