rcsfile (5)
NAME
rcsfile -DESCRIPTION
AnThe text is free format: space, backspace, tab, newline, vertical tab, form feed, and carriage return (collectively, white space) have no significance except in strings. However, white space cannot appear within an id, num, or sym, and an
Strings are enclosed by @. If a string contains a @, it must be doubled; otherwise, strings can contain arbitrary binary data.
The meta syntax uses the following conventions: `|' (bar) separates alternatives; `{' and `}' enclose optional phrases; `{' and `}*' enclose phrases that can be repeated zero or more times; `{' and '}+' enclose phrases that must appear at least once and can be repeated; Terminal symbols are in boldface; nonterminal symbols are in italics.
rcstext ::= admin {delta}* desc {deltatext}*
admin ::= head {num};
{ branch {num}; }
access {id}*;
symbols {sym : num}*;
locks {id : num}*; {strict ;}
{ integrity {intstring}; }
{ comment {string}; }
{ expand {string}; }
delta ::= num
date num;
author id;
state {id};
branches {num}*;
next {num};
{ commitid sym; }
desc ::= desc string
deltatext ::= num
log string
text string
num ::= {digit | .}+
digit ::= 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
id ::= {idchar | .}+
sym ::= {idchar}+
idchar ::= any visible graphic character except special
special ::= $ | , | . | : | ; | @
string ::= @{any character, with @ doubled}*@
word ::= id | num | string | :
intchar ::= any character, except @
thirdp ::= ^L {intchar}*
intstring ::= @ {intchar}* {thirdp}* @
In releases prior to 5.8 (2011-08-30), the grammar included the newphrase production and used it in the admin, delta and deltatext productions. This allowed third-party programs to interoperate with
Identifiers are case sensitive. Keywords are in lower case only. The sets of keywords and identifiers can overlap. In most environments
Dates, which appear after the date keyword, are of the form Y.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss, where Y is the year, mm the month (01-12), dd the day (01-31), hh the hour (00-23), mm the minute (00-59), and ss the second (00-60). Y contains just the last two digits of the year for years from 1900 through 1999, and all the digits of years thereafter. Dates use the Gregorian calendar; times use UTC.
The delta nodes form a tree. All nodes whose numbers consist of a single pair (e.g., 2.3, 2.1, 1.3, etc.) are on the trunk, and are linked through the next field in order of decreasing numbers. The head field in the admin node points to the head of that sequence (i.e., contains the highest pair). The branch node in the admin node indicates the default branch (or revision) for most
All delta nodes whose numbers consist of 2n fields (n>2) (e.g., 3.1.1.1, 2.1.2.2, etc.) are linked as follows. All nodes whose first 2n-1 number fields are identical are linked through the next field in order of increasing numbers. For each such sequence, the delta node whose number is identical to the first 2n-2 number fields of the deltas on that sequence is called the branchpoint. The branches field of a node contains a list of the numbers of the first nodes of all sequences for which it is a branchpoint. This list is ordered in increasing numbers.
The following diagram shows an example of an
Head
|
|
v / \
--------- / \
/ \ / \ | | / \ / \
/ \ / \ | 2.1 | / \ / \
/ \ / \ | | / \ / \
/1.2.1.3\ /1.3.1.1\ | | /1.2.2.2\ /1.2.2.1.1.1\
--------- --------- --------- --------- -------------
^ ^ | ^ ^
| | | | |
| | v | |
/ \ | --------- / \ |
/ \ | \ 1.3 / / \ |
/ \ ---------\ / / \-----------
/1.2.1.1\ 1.3.1 \ / /1.2.2.1\ 1.2.2.1.1
--------- \ / ---------
^ | ^
| | |
| v |
| --------- |
| \ 1.2 / |
----------------------\ /---------
1.2.1 \ / 1.2.2
\ /
|
|
v
---------
\ 1.1 /
\ /
\ /
\ /
IDENTIFICATION
Author: Walter F. Tichy.Manual Page Revision: 5.9.4; Release Date: 2015-06-21.
Copyright © 2010-2015 Thien-Thi Nguyen.
Copyright © 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Paul Eggert.
Copyright © 1982, 1988, 1989 Walter F. Tichy.
SEE ALSO
ci(1), co(1), ident(1), rcs(1), rcsclean(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsmerge(1), rlog(1).Walter F. Tichy,
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