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by **Paul D. Smi** » Thu, 23 Nov 1995 04:00:00

%% Regarding How to undo SCCS get -e ?;

hc> Can I possibly cancel this get -e

"man sccs" says:

unedit
"Undo" the last edit or `get -e', and return the working copy to
its previous condition. unedit backs out all pending changes
made since the file was checked out.

hc> Besides, are there any alternatives to SCCS?

RCS. It's free, runs on all UNIX systems plus VMS and DOS, and it has
many real advantages over SCCS in ease-of-use and features. Or, if you
want something more comprehensive, try CVS which is built on top of RCS.

Look at:

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu

or it's mirrors.
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by **Edward X** » Sat, 25 Nov 1995 04:00:00

Quote:
>I am using SCO unix SCCS utilities right now. I issue the command

> get -e s.file.c

>to get a file and edit. Can I possibly cancel this get -e so that the
>other guys can get -e?

On my Solaris 2.3, I use:

sccs unedit file

Maybe it'll be same on SCO.

You could also try this but I'm not sure:

sccs unget file

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by **Guy Harr** » Tue, 28 Nov 1995 04:00:00

>On my Solaris 2.3, I use:

> sccs unedit file

>Maybe it'll be same on SCO.

Or maybe it won't. The "sccs" command is a front end to SCCS written by
Eric Allman. It came with BSD, and some vendors have picked it up from
BSD; others might not have.

The fact that the original poster said "How to undo SCCS get -e" rather
than "How to undo 'sccs edit'" suggests that either

1) SCO UNIX doesn't have the "sccs" front end command

or

2) it does, but the original poster doesn't know about it.

If the answer is 2), they should check out the documentation for the
"sccs" front end command.

If the answer is 1), they'd have to simulate what "sccs unedit" does by
hand, as per the suggestions of other posters in this thread (or, if
they're sufficiently ambitious, get the source to the "sccs" front end
command from a recent BSD release, and get it to work under SCO UNIX).

by **Tye McQue** » Fri, 01 Dec 1995 04:00:00

) >
) > sccs unedit file
[...]
) 1) SCO UNIX doesn't have the "sccs" front end command
[...]
) If the answer is 1), they'd have to simulate what "sccs unedit" does by
) hand, as per the suggestions of other posters in this thread (or, if
) they're sufficiently ambitious, get the source to the "sccs" front end
) command from a recent BSD release, and get it to work under SCO UNIX).

To check out for editting:
% get -e file.c

To un-check-out:
% rm file.c SCCS/p.file.c

Not that tough. Assumes no one else has a revision of that file
checked out.

Sorry, haven't seen any other postings from this thread, but it
seemed this was being made to be harder than it should be.
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by **Bill Rober** » Sat, 02 Dec 1995 04:00:00

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>To un-check-out:
> % rm file.c SCCS/p.file.c

NO! DON'T DO THAT! If you do, and someone else has checked out
another version of the file, his checkout goes away as well. Use the
unget command:
% unget [-r<version>] SCCS/s.file.c
Use the commands within the SCCS system.

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by **Joan Colle** » Sun, 03 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Why not use the SCCS command unget ???

Joan.

>) >
>) > sccs unedit file
>[...]
>) 1) SCO UNIX doesn't have the "sccs" front end command
>[...]
>) If the answer is 1), they'd have to simulate what "sccs unedit" does by
>) hand, as per the suggestions of other posters in this thread (or, if
>) they're sufficiently ambitious, get the source to the "sccs" front end
>) command from a recent BSD release, and get it to work under SCO UNIX).

>To check out for editting:
> % get -e file.c

>To un-check-out:
> % rm file.c SCCS/p.file.c

>Not that tough. Assumes no one else has a revision of that file
>checked out.

>Sorry, haven't seen any other postings from this thread, but it
>seemed this was being made to be harder than it should be.
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