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rlog - print log messages and other information about RCS files
rlog
[ options ] file ...
rlog prints information about files.
Pathnames
matching an suffix denote files; all others denote working files. Names
are paired as explained in ci(1)
.
rlog prints the following information
for each file: pathname, working pathname, head (i.e., the number of the
latest revision on the trunk), default branch, access list, locks, symbolic
names, suffix, total number of revisions, number of revisions selected
for printing, and descriptive text. This is followed by entries for the
selected revisions in reverse chronological order for each branch. For
each revision, rlog prints revision number, author, date/time, state, number
of lines added/deleted (with respect to the previous revision), locker
of the revision (if any), and log message. All times are displayed in Coordinated
Universal Time () by default; this can be overridden with -z. Without options,
rlog prints complete information. The options below restrict this output.
- -L
- Ignore files that have no locks set. This is convenient in combination
with -h, -l, and -R.
- -R
- Print only the name of the file. This is convenient
for translating a working pathname into an pathname.
- -h
- Print only the
pathname, working pathname, head, default branch, access list, locks, symbolic
names, and suffix.
- -t
- Print the same as -h, plus the descriptive text.
- -N
- Do
not print the symbolic names.
- -b
- Print information about the revisions on
the default branch, normally the highest branch on the trunk.
- -ddates
- Print
information about revisions with a checkin date/time in the ranges given
by the semicolon-separated list of dates. A range of the form d1<d2 or d2>d1
selects the revisions that were deposited between d1 and d2 exclusive. A
range of the form <d or d> selects all revisions earlier than d. A range of
the form d< or >d selects all revisions dated later than d. If < or > is followed
by = then the ranges are inclusive, not exclusive. A range of the form d
selects the single, latest revision dated d or earlier. The date/time strings
d, d1, and d2 are in the free format explained in co(1)
. Quoting is normally
necessary, especially for < and >. Note that the separator is a semicolon.
- -l[lockers]
- Print information about locked revisions only. In addition, if
the comma-separated list lockers of login names is given, ignore all locks
other than those held by the lockers. For example, rlog -L -R -lwft RCS/* prints
the name of files locked by the user wft.
- -r[revisions]
- prints information
about revisions given in the comma-separated list revisions of revisions
and ranges. A range rev1:rev2 means revisions rev1 to rev2 on the same branch,
:rev means revisions from the beginning of the branch up to and including
rev, and rev: means revisions starting with rev to the end of the branch
containing rev. An argument that is a branch means all revisions on that
branch. A range of branches means all revisions on the branches in that
range. A branch followed by a . means the latest revision in that branch.
A bare -r with no revisions means the latest revision on the default branch,
normally the trunk.
- -sstates
- prints information about revisions whose state
attributes match one of the states given in the comma-separated list states.
- -w[logins]
- prints information about revisions checked in by users with login
names appearing in the comma-separated list logins. If logins is omitted,
the user's login is assumed.
- -T
- This option has no effect; it is present for
compatibility with other commands.
- -V
- Print 's version number.
- -Vn
- Emulate
version n when generating logs. See co(1)
for more.
- -xsuffixes
- Use suffixes
to characterize files. See ci(1)
for details.
rlog prints the intersection
of the revisions selected with the options -d, -l, -s, and -w, intersected
with the union of the revisions selected by -b and -r.
- -zzone
- specifies the
date output format, and specifies the default time zone for date in the
-ddates option. The zone should be empty, a numeric offset, or the special
string LT for local time. The default is an empty zone, which uses the traditional
format of without any time zone indication and with slashes separating
the parts of the date; otherwise, times are output in 8601 format with
time zone indication. For example, if local time is January 11, 1990, 8pm
Pacific Standard Time, eight hours west of , then the time is output as
follows:
option time output
-z 1990/01/12 04:00:00 (default)
-zLT 1990-01-11 20:00:00-08
-z+05:30 1990-01-12 09:30:00+05:30
rlog -L -R RCS/* rlog -L -h RCS/* rlog -L -l RCS/* rlog
RCS/*
The first command prints the names of all files in the subdirectory
RCS that have locks. The second command prints the headers of those files,
and the third prints the headers plus the log messages of the locked revisions.
The last command prints complete information.
- RCSINIT
- options
prepended to the argument list, separated by spaces. See ci(1)
for details.
The exit status is zero if and only if all operations were successful.
Author: Walter F. Tichy.
Manual Page Revision: ; Release Date: .
Copyright © 1982, 1988, 1989 Walter F. Tichy.
Copyright © 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Paul Eggert.
ci(1)
,
co(1)
, ident(1)
, rcs(1)
, rcsdiff(1)
, rcsintro(1)
, rcsmerge(1)
, rcsfile(5)
Walter F. Tichy, A System for Version Control, SoftwarePractice & Experience
15, 7 (July 1985), 637-654.
The separator for revision ranges in the
-r option used to be - instead of :, but this leads to confusion when symbolic
names contain -. For backwards compatibility rlog -r still supports the old
- separator, but it warns about this obsolete use.
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