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sccs-create(1) Schily´s USER COMMANDS sccs-create(1)

NAME

sccs-create, sccs-enter - create (initialize) history files

SYNOPSIS

sccs create [options] [file1 .. filen]
sccs enter [options] [file1 .. filen]

DESCRIPTION

The create subcommand creates an SCCS file, taking the initial contents from the file of the same name. Any flags to admin are accepted. If the creation is successful, the files are renamed with a comma on the front. These should be removed when you are convinced that the SCCS files have been created successfully.

sccs create performs the following steps:

Creates the history file called s.program.c in the SCCS subdirectory.
Renames the original source file to ,program.c in the current directory.
Performs an `sccs get' on program.c to retrieve a read-only copy of the initial version.

The enter subcommand is similar to the sccs create command, but it omits the final `sccs get'. This can be used if an `sccs edit' is to be performed immediately after the history file is initialized.

OPTIONS

Options are passed to the admin program, e.g.:

Use the original file time instead of the current time for the time of the initial delta.

EXAMPLES

To create a new SCCS repository for the file xec.c in the current directory call:

sccs create xec.c

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

See environ(7) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sccs-create(1): LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

If set, sccs create 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.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SCHILYdeveloper-build-sccs
Interface Stability Committed

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-cvt(1), sccs-deledit(1), sccs-delget(1), sccs-delta(1), sccs-diffs(1), sccs-edit(1), sccs-editor(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(5), sccsfile(5).

BUGS

None currently known.

Mail bugs and suggestions to schilytools@mlists.in-berlin.de or open a ticket at https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/issues.

The mailing list archive may be found at:

https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de.

AUTHOR

sccs create 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 has been maintained by Joerg Schilling and the schilytools project authors.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD

The source code for SCCS is included in the schilytools project and may be retrieved from the schilytools project at Codeberg at

https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools.

The download directory is

https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/releases.

2022/10/06 Joerg Schilling