Re: Query with respect to RCS

[Bob Proulx]

Mathews, Shane wrote:
> I am a developer and we have recently started using RCS as our
> version control tool.

I have used rcs for many years.  I am still using it.  But it seems
very strange for someone to *start* using rcs these days.  We have
learned so much about version control in the decades since rcs was
created that today I recommend one of the newer changeset based tools.

> I was wondering whether there was any command/switch that could help
> identify the current version of the file contained in the RCS
> repository. I know that performing the "co" command against the
> file, reveals the current version. But is there any command that
> specifically returns only the information of the current version of
> the file.

Look at the rlog command.  The following will produce the version on
the head branch of the file.

  rlog -h file,v | awk '/^head:/{print$NF}'

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