rcsi is a program to give information about RCS files.

Copyright Colin Brough, 1994-2003

rcsi is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

rcsi is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with rcsi; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

$Id: README.html,v 1.3 2003/04/19 22:59:47 cmb Exp $

rcsi gives information on files maintained by the RCS Revision Control System. Output is similar to this:

cmb.rcsi > rcsi
COPYING ( out, unchanged, unlocked )
Makefile ( out, *revised*, cmb:1.5 )
RCS ( Directory )
README ( out, unchanged, unlocked )
README~ ( Not under RCS )
rcsi ( Not under RCS )
rcsi-0.1 ( Directory )
rcsi.c ( out, *revised*, cmb:1.10 )
cmb.rcsi >

You may also specify files on the command line:

cmb.rcsi > rcsi COPYING README rcsi.c
COPYING ( out, unchanged, unlocked )
README ( out, unchanged, unlocked )
rcsi.c ( out, *revised*, cmb:1.10 )
cmb.rcsi >

Example 1Example 2

A numer of options are available to limit the output, for example only to changed files, or only files with locks.

Installation

Just type 'make' - by default 'gcc' is used. Then copy the binary and the man page to wherever you want them to go... Edit the Makefile if you need to use a different compiler or compile time options. 'rcsi' was developed and tested principally on Linux (originally Slackware release 2.0, and most recently Mandrake 9.0), and has also been compiled and run on SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3, Irix 5.2 and OSF/1 - see the Makefile for example targets for the different architectures.

Status and Bug Reports

'rcsi' is in some ways rough and ready, but has done the job for me since around 1994 with few bugs. I am aware of no current bugs - just clunkiness of design! If you find any bugs, please let me know. Also, if you have any suggestions for information that 'rcsi' could display that you would find useful, I'd be interested in hearing them.

Contact me with comments, bug reports, etc.

I'll generally try and make the most recent version of rcsi available as a gzipped tar file from:

Download rcsi 0.5

(or similar, depending on version number).