NAME

sccs-create, sccs-enter - create (initialize) history files

SYNOPSIS

sccs create [options] [file1 .. filen]
sccs enter [options] [file1 .. filen]

DESCRIPTION

The create subcommand creates an SCCS file, taking the initial contents from the file of the same name. Any flags to admin are accepted. If the creation is successful, the files are renamed with a comma on the front. These should be removed when you are convinced that the SCCS files have been created successfully.

sccs create performs the following steps:

o: Creates the history file called s.program.c in the SCCS subdirectory.
o: Renames the original source file to ,program.c in the current directory.
o: Performs an `sccs get' on program.c to retrieve a read-only copy of the initial version.

The enter subcommand is similar to the sccs create command, but it omits the final `sccs get'. This can be used if an `sccs edit' is to be performed immediately after the history file is initialized.

OPTIONS

Options are passed to the admin program, e.g.:

-o: Use the original file time instead of the current time for the time of the initial delta.

EXAMPLES

To create a new SCCS repository for the file xec.c in the current directory call:

: sccs create xec.c

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sccs-create(1): LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

SCCS_NO_HELP: If set, sccs create will not automatically call help(1) with the SCCS error code in order to print a more helpful error message. Scripts that depend on the exact error messages of SCCS commands should set the environment variable SCCS_NO_HELP and set LC_ALL=C.

FILES

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SCHILYdeveloper-build-sccs
Interface Stability	Committed

sccs(1), sccs-add(1), sccs-admin(1), sccs-branch(1), sccs-cdc(1), sccs-check(1), sccs-clean(1), sccs-comb(1), sccs-commit(1), sccs-cvt(1), sccs-deledit(1), sccs-delget(1), sccs-delta(1), sccs-diffs(1), sccs-edit(1), sccs-editor(1), sccs-fix(1), sccs-get(1), sccs-help(1), sccs-histfile(1), sccs-info(1), sccs-init(1), sccs-istext(1), sccs-ldiffs(1), sccs-log(1), sccs-print(1), sccs-prs(1), sccs-prt(1), sccs-rcs2sccs(1), sccs-remove(1), sccs-rename(1), sccs-rmdel(1), sccs-root(1), sccs-sact(1), sccs-sccsdiff(1), sccs-status(1), sccs-tell(1), sccs-unedit(1), sccs-unget(1), sccs-val(1), what(1), sccschangeset(4), sccsfile(4).

DIAGNOSTICS

NOTES

BUGS

AUTHOR

sccs create was originally written by Eric Allman at UCB in 1980. It was later maintained by various people at AT&T and Sun Microsystems. Since 2006, it is maintained by Joerg Schilling.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD

A frequently updated source code for the SCCS suite is included in the schilytools project and may be retrieved from the schilytools project at Sourceforge at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/

The download directory is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/

Check for the schily-*.tar.bz2 archives.

Less frequently updated source code for the SCCS suite is at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sccs/files/

Separate project informations for the SCCS project may be retrieved from:

http://sccs.sf.net