Re: Suggested new feature for ci

[email protected] (Karl Berry) Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:01:03 GMT
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>    The "-m" option of the "ci" command makes it difficult to specify
>    an empty log message.

How about
ci -m-
meaning an empty commit message,
by analogy with ci -t.

Admittedly it is an incompatibility, but how many people check in RCS
files with a log message of "-"?

Just an idea, I'm not arguing strenously for it by any means.

    >        ci -l filename < /dev/null

Doesn't seem so bad, actually ...

k