NAME

       rcs-checkin - accepts any number of file arguments and checks them into RCS

SYNOPSIS

       rcs-checkin files ...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the rcs-checkin, command.  This manual page was written
       for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a  manual
       page.  Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       The following is taken from the script itself.

       Arguments  which  are  detectably  either  RCS  masters (with names ending in ,v) or Emacs
       version files  (with names of the form foo.~<number>~) are ignored.  For  each  file  foo,
       the  script  looks  for  Emacs version files related to it.  These files are checked in as
       deltas, oldest first, so that the contents of the file itself becomes the latest  revision
       in the master.

       The  first  line  of  each  file  is used as its description text.  The file itself is not
       deleted, as under VC with vc-keep-workfiles at its default of t, but all the version files
       are.

       If  an  argument file is already version-controlled under RCS, any version files are added
       to the list of deltas and deleted, and then the workfile is checked in again as the latest
       version.   This  is  probably not quite what was wanted, and is the main reason VC doesn't
       simply call this to do checkins.

       This script is intended to be used  to  convert  files  with  an  old-Emacs-style  version
       history  for  use with VC (the Emacs 19 version-control interface), which likes to use RCS
       as its back end.  It was written by Paul Eggert and revised/documented for use with VC  by
       Eric S. Raymond, Mar 19 1993.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others). Most of  the  text  was  written  by  the  rcs-checkin
       authors Paul Eggert and Eric S. Raymond.

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