14.1 Overview of RCS Commands

The three most important RCS commands are:

ci

Check in revisions (put a file under RCS control).

co

Check out revisions.

rcs

Set up or change attributes of RCS files.

Two additional commands provide information about RCS files:

ident

Extract keyword values from an RCS file.

rlog

Display a summary (log) about the revisions in an RCS file.

You can compare RCS files with these commands:

rcsdiff

Report differences between revisions.

rcsmerge

Incorporate changes from two RCS files into a third RCS file.

The following command helps with configuration management:

rcsclean

Remove working files that have not been changed.