Overview of RCS Commands

The three most important RCS commands are:

• ci
• Check in revisions (put a file under RCS control).
• co
• Check out revisions.
• rcs
• Set up or change attributes of RCS files.

Two additional commands provide information about RCS files:

• ident
• Extract keyword values from an RCS file.
• rlog
• Display a summary (log) about the revisions in an RCS file.

You can compare RCS files with these commands:

• rcsdiff
• Report differences between revisions.
• rcsmerge
• Incorporate changes from two RCS files into a third RCS file.

The following command helps with configuration management:

• rcsclean
• Remove working files that have not been changed.