sccs-edit(1)

NAME
sccs-edit - retrieves a version of a file for editing

SYNOPSIS
sccs edit [options] file1 .. filen

DESCRIPTION

Retrieve a version of the file for editing. `sccs edit' extracts a version of the file that is writable by you, and creates a p.file in the SCCS subdirectory as lock on the history, so that no one else can check that version in or out. ID keywords are retrieved in unexpanded form. edit accepts the same options as get, below. Refer to sccs-get(1) for more information about the get utility and for a list of ID keywords and their definitions. The edit subcommand is basically equivalent to ``get -e''.

OPTIONS

-asequence
    Retrieves the version corresponding to the indicated delta sequence number. This option is used primarily by the SCCS comb command (see sccs-comb(1)). For users, -r is an easier way to specify a version. The -a option supersedes the -r option when both are used.

-b  Creates a new branch. Used with the -e option to indicate that the new delta should have a SID in a new branch. Instead of incrementing the level for version to be checked in, get indicates in the p.file that the delta to be checked in should either initialize a new branch and sequence (if there is no existing branch at the current level), or increment the branch component of the SID. If the b flag is not set in the s.file, this option is ignored.

-c date-time

-cdate-time
    Retrieves the latest version checked in prior to the date and time indicated by the date-time argument. date-time takes the form:

     yy[mm[dd[ hh[mm[ss]]]]]

    Units omitted from the indicated date and time default to their maximum possible values; that is -c7502 is equivalent to -c750228235959. Values of yy in the range 69-99 refer to the twentieth century. Values in the range 00-68 refer to the twenty-first century. Any number of non-numeric characters may separate the various 2 digit components. If white-space characters occur, the date-time specification must be quoted.

    A date-time specification in the form:

     yyyy/[mm[dd[hh[mm[ss]]]]]

    refers to a 4-digit year and allows to specify a year outside the range 1969-2068.

-g  Gets the SCCS version ID, without retrieving the version itself. Used to verify the existence of a particular SID.

-i sid-list

-isid-list
    Specifies a list of deltas to include in the retrieved version. The included deltas are noted in the standard output message. sid-list is a comma-separated list of SIDs. To specify a range of deltas, use a `-' separator instead of a comma, between two SIDs in the list.

-s  Suppresses all output normally written on the standard output. However, fatal error messages (which always go to the standard error) remain unaffected.

-t  Retrieves the most recently created (top) delta in a given release (for example: -r1).

-r[sid]
    Retrieves the version corresponding to the indicated SID (delta).

    The SID for a given delta is a number, in Dewey decimal format, composed of two or four fields: the release and level fields, and for branch deltas, the branch and sequence fields. For instance, if 1.2 is the SID, 1 is the release, and 2 is the level number. If 1.2.3.4 is the SID, 3 is the branch and 4 is the sequence number.

    You need not specify the entire SID to retrieve a version with get. When you omit -r altogether, or when you omit both release and level, get normally retrieves the highest release and level. If the d flag is set to an SID in the s.file and you omit the SID, get retrieves the default version indicated by that flag.

    When you specify a release but omit the level, get retrieves the highest level in that release. If that release does not exist, get retrieves highest level from the next-highest existing release.

    Similarly with branches, if you specify a release, level and branch, get retrieves the highest sequence in that branch.

-x sid-list

-x[sid-list]
    Excludes the indicated deltas from the retrieved version. The excluded deltas are noted in the standard output message. sid-list is a comma-separated list of SIDs. To specify a range of deltas, use a `-' separator instead of a comma, between two SIDs in the list.

EXAMPLES

To edit the file xec.c in the current directory call:

    sccs edit xec.c

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sccs-edit(1): LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

SCCS_NO_HELP
    If set, sccs edit will not automatically call help(1) with the SCCS error code in order to print a more helpful error message. Scripts that depend on the exact error messages of SCCS commands should set the environment variable SCCS_NO_HELP and set LC_ALL=C.

FILES

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

SEE ALSO

sccs(1), sccs-add(1), sccs-admin(1), sccs-branch(1), sccs-cdc(1), sccs-check(1), sccs-clean(1), sccs-comb(1), sccs-commit(1), sccs-create(1), sccs-cvt(1), sccs-deledit(1), sccs-delget(1), sccs-delta(1), sccs-diffs(1), sccs-editor(1), sccs-enter(1), sccs-fix(1), sccs-get(1), sccs-help(1), sccs-histfile(1), sccs-info(1), sccs-init(1), sccs-istext(1), sccs-ldiffs(1), sccs-log(1), sccs-print(1), sccs-prs(1), sccs-prt(1), sccs-rcs2sccs(1), sccs-remove(1), sccs-rename(1), sccs-rmdel(1), sccs-root(1), sccs-sact(1), sccs-sccsdiff(1), sccs-status(1), sccs-tell(1), sccs-unedit(1), sccs-unget(1), sccs-val(1), what(1), sccschangeset(4), sccsfile(4).

DIAGNOSTICS

NOTES

BUGS

AUTHOR
sccs edit was originally written by Eric Allman at UCB in 1980. It was later maintained by various people at AT&T and Sun Microsystems. Since 2006, it is maintained by Joerg Schilling.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD
A frequently updated source code for the SCCS suite is included in the schilytools project and may be retrieved from the schilytools project at Sourceforge at:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/

The download directory is:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/

Check for the schily-*.tar.bz2 archives.

Less frequently updated source code for the SCCS suite is at:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/sccs/files/

Separate project informations for the SCCS project may be retrieved from:

    http://sccs.sf.net