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Steven Lu
Steven Lu

Reputation: 43427

Can I view the RCS log with diffs?

Sadly, there is no RCS tag on Unix.stackexchange or ServerFault, so I am posting this on StackOverflow.

I'm spoiled by SVN/Git, and I need to see the history of a file. With my scripts I am using RCS to track changes made to system configuration files, so it would be neat if I could view them like I do with Git. for git I use git log -p to get this kind of output.

Is there a flag for rlog or rcsdiff or anything that lets me get a log that has the diffs?

Or must I use rcsdiff and a shell script to implement this myself?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4344

Answers (3)

JohnMudd
JohnMudd

Reputation: 13813

Read the ,v file. It contains the full history.

Upvotes: 1

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54505

rcshist (written by Ian Dowse) does what was requested. I do not know of prebuilt packages, but it builds easily.

Here is sample output:

REV:1.346               aclocal.m4          2012/09/03 17:21:43       tom
tags:            xterm-281s, xterm-281r, xterm-281q, xterm-281p, xterm-281o,
                 xterm-281n, xterm-281m, xterm-281l, xterm-281k, xterm-281j,
                 xterm-281i, xterm-281h, xterm-281g, xterm-281f, xterm-281e

   change default for --with-xpm

--- aclocal.m4  2012/08/25 23:05:32     1.345
+++ aclocal.m4  2012/09/03 17:21:43     1.346
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $XTermId: rcshist.html,v 1.16 2015/03/01 20:34:33 tom Exp $
+dnl $XTermId: rcshist.html,v 1.16 2015/03/01 20:34:33 tom Exp $
 dnl
 dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl
@@ -3554,7 +3554,7 @@
 AC_SUBST(no_pixmapdir)
 ])dnl
 dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-dnl CF_WITH_XPM version: 1 updated: 2012/07/22 09:18:02
+dnl CF_WITH_XPM version: 2 updated: 2012/09/03 05:42:04
 dnl -----------
 dnl Test for Xpm library, update compiler/loader flags if it is wanted and
 dnl found.
@@ -3571,7 +3571,7 @@
 AC_ARG_WITH(xpm,
 [  --with-xpm=DIR          use Xpm library for colored icon, may specify path],
        [cf_Xpm_library="$withval"],
-       [cf_Xpm_library=no])
+       [cf_Xpm_library=yes])
 AC_MSG_RESULT($cf_Xpm_library)

 if test "$cf_Xpm_library" != no ; then

Upvotes: 4

Ryan P
Ryan P

Reputation: 201

    rlog filename

Will show you the basic history. 

    rcsdiff -r5.1 -r5.2 filename

To see a diff between two revisions. Do not put a space after the -r.

Upvotes: 3

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