NAME

        aegis new project alias - create a new project alias

SYNOPSIS

        aegis -New_Project_Alias [ option...  ] project-name alias-name
        aegis -Help
        aegis -VERSion

DESCRIPTION

        The aegis -New_Project_Alias command is used to create a projects alias, so that branches
        of projects may be referred by a shorter or more specific name.

        The project name must be given on the command line; the default project is not
        sufficient.  The project named may be a top-level project, or it may be a branch (to any
        depth of branch).

        The new alias name must also be given on the command line, and it must be the second
        name.  Project aliases have fewer limits than project names: they must not need shell
        quoting, that's all.

   Example
        Aliases may be used in may ways.  The most common is to give a particular release a code
        name.  You would do this by saying
                aenpa example.4.2 sydney
        This would make “sydney” an alias for the “example.4.2” branch.

        Another use for aliases is to have a fixed alias for your active branch, so that your
        developer team does not need to change their default project, even though the branch
        number moves on for each release.  You could say
                aenpa example.4.2 example.cur
        This would make “example.cur” an alias for the “example.4.2” branch.  When this was
        finished, and 4.3 started, a project administrator could say
                aerpa example.cur
                aenpa example.4.3 example.cur
        Now “example.cur” is an alias for the “example.4.3” branch, but the developers need only
        reference “example.cur” to always work on the right branch.

OPTIONS

        The following options are understood:

        -Help
                This option may be used to obtain more information about how to use the aegis
                program.

        See also aegis(1) for options common to all aegis commands.

        All options may be abbreviated; the abbreviation is documented as the upper case letters,
        all lower case letters and underscores (_) are optional.  You must use consecutive
        sequences of optional letters.

        All options are case insensitive, you may type them in upper case or lower case or a
        combination of both, case is not important.

        For example: the arguments "-project, "-PROJ" and "-p" are all interpreted to mean the
        -Project option.  The argument "-prj" will not be understood, because consecutive
        optional characters were not supplied.

        Options and other command line arguments may be mixed arbitrarily on the command line,
        after the function selectors.

        The GNU long option names are understood.  Since all option names for aegis are long,
        this means ignoring the extra leading '-'.  The "--option=value" convention is also
        understood.

ERRORS

        It is an error if the old project does not exist.
        It is an error if the current user is not a project administrator.
        It is an error if the new alias name look like a branch name.
        It is an error if the new alias contains unprintable characters.

EXIT STATUS

        The aegis command will exit with a status of 1 on any error.  The aegis command will only
        exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

        See aegis(1) for a list of environment variables which may affect this command.  See
        aepconf(5) for the project configuration file's project_specific field for how to set
        environment variables for all commands executed by Aegis.

SEE ALSO

        aerpa(1)
                Remove project alias.

COPYRIGHT

        aegis version 4.24.3.D001
        Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
        2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Peter Miller

        The aegis program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'aegis -VERSion
        License' command.  This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under
        certain conditions; for details use the 'aegis -VERSion License' command.

AUTHOR

        Peter Miller   E-Mail:   millerp@canb.auug.org.au
        /\/\*             WWW:   http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/