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This is a wrapper around RCS. Unlike the original plugin this uses normal vim editing commands for commit messages. It's also been tweaked for my use cases, in particular support for privilege escalation through sudo and repeated edit -> cycles.
RCS is still a fairly decent way to add one-off ad-hoc version control particularly for system administration work. The original plugin works well, but has some issues in this scenario.
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The plugin prompts for checkout too aggressively. I commonly use my user account to open root owned files. The plugin sees the lock condition and prompts for (an uncompletable) checkout.
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I'd like to be able to sudo ci. This mirrors the (various) SudoWrite actions.
The original uses input() to emulate rcs's primitive editor. This seems a waste, as vim is a superb editor. I've altered the code to use a vim split.
Original Commands With changes
RCSco - The same
RCSco - made "w" the default
RCSDiff - The same
New Commands
RCSSudo - set a per buffer persistant sudo on RCS commands
RCSwork - A common workflow, ci, then co -l.
This streamlines a common workflow
RCSnostrict - enable loose(r) lock behavior ``rcs -U [filename]``
The script has been (partially) updated to more modern vim plugin structure. The original plugin was written to as a single self contained script and included a help document unpacking/updating function. Modern runpath manipulation allows files to be separated out more naturally. Notably, although it's a work in progress, I've moved code to autoload, a syntax and filetype folder (for rlog output) and some initial testing which makes the code
- easier to maintain
- easier to test
- load faster
I've removed the menu creation code. I've no problems with such additions, but also see little benefit to it (from my viewpoint, it'd be easier/quicker to suspend and enter commands directly than to choose a menu item). Since the structuring took a fair amount of time on load, I disabled it by default, adding an option to load.
The maintainer of the original plugin, Christian J. Robinson, has recently updated the plugin, mostly by always loading the menu code and adding windows support. I've not looked at the new code, but since I've taken this plugin in a significantly different direction, I've decided to remove the menuing code. The divergence is now wide. When I originally put this out on github, I contact the Mr Robinson, but did not hear from him. At this point the plugin, though based on the same work, is now significantly different.