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NAME

       rlog - print log messages and other information about RCS files

SYNOPSIS

       rlog [ options ] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       rlog prints information about RCS files.

       Pathnames matching an RCS suffix denote RCS files; all others denote working files.  Names are paired as explained in ci(1).

       rlog  prints  the following information for each RCS file: RCS pathname, working pathname, head (i.e., the number of the latest revision on
       the trunk), default branch, access list, locks, symbolic names, suffix, total number of revisions, number of revisions selected for  print-
       ing,  and  descriptive  text.   This is followed by entries for the selected revisions in reverse chronological order for each branch.  For
       each revision, rlog prints revision number, author, date/time, state, number of lines added/deleted (with respect  to  the  previous  revi-
       sion),  locker of the revision (if any), and log message.  All times are displayed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by default; this can
       be overridden with -z.  Without options, rlog prints complete information.  The options below restrict this output.

       -L  Ignore RCS files that have no locks set.  This is convenient in combination with -h, -l, and -R.

       -R  Print only the name of the RCS file.  This is convenient for translating a working pathname into an RCS pathname.

       -h  Print only the RCS pathname, working pathname, head, default branch, access list, locks, symbolic names, and suffix.

       -t  Print the same as -h, plus the descriptive text.

       -N  Do not print the symbolic names.

       -b  Print information about the revisions on the default branch, normally the highest branch on the trunk.

       -ddates
	   Print information about revisions with a checkin date/time in the ranges given by the semicolon-separated list of dates.   A  range	of
	   the	form  d1<d2  or d2>d1 selects the revisions that were deposited between d1 and d2 exclusive.  A range of the form <d or d> selects
	   all revisions earlier than d.  A range of the form d< or >d selects all revisions dated later than d.  If < or > is followed by =  then
	   the	ranges are inclusive, not exclusive.  A range of the form d selects the single, latest revision dated d or earlier.  The date/time
	   strings d, d1, and d2 are in the free format explained in co(1).  Quoting is normally necessary, especially for < and >.  Note that the
	   separator is a semicolon.

       -l[lockers]
	   Print  information  about  locked revisions only.  In addition, if the comma-separated list lockers of login names is given, ignore all
	   locks other than those held by the lockers.	For example, rlog -L -R -lwft RCS/* prints the name of RCS files locked by the user wft.

       -r[revisions]
	   prints information about revisions given in the comma-separated list revisions of revisions and ranges.  A range rev1:rev2 means  revi-
	   sions  rev1	to  rev2 on the same branch, :rev means revisions from the beginning of the branch up to and including rev, and rev: means
	   revisions starting with rev to the end of the branch containing rev.  An argument that is a branch means all revisions on that  branch.
	   A  range  of  branches  means  all revisions on the branches in that range.	A branch followed by a . means the latest revision in that
	   branch.  A bare -r with no revisions means the latest revision on the default branch, normally the trunk.

       -sstates
	   prints information about revisions whose state attributes match one of the states given in the comma-separated list states.

       -w[logins]
	   prints information about revisions checked in by users with login names appearing in the comma-separated list  logins.   If	logins	is
	   omitted, the user's login is assumed.

       -T  This option has no effect; it is present for compatibility with other RCS commands.

       -V  Print RCS's version number.

       -Vn Emulate RCS version n when generating logs.	See co(1) for more.

       -xsuffixes
	   Use suffixes to characterize RCS files.  See ci(1) for details.

       rlog  prints  the  intersection	of the revisions selected with the options -d, -l, -s, and -w, intersected with the union of the revisions
       selected by -b and -r.

       -zzone specifies the date output format, and specifies the default time zone for date in the -ddates option.  The zone should be  empty,  a
	      numeric UTC offset, or the special string LT for local time.  The default is an empty zone, which uses the traditional RCS format of
	      UTC without any time zone indication and with slashes separating the parts of the date; otherwise, times are output in ISO 8601 for-
	      mat  with time zone indication.  For example, if local time is January 11, 1990, 8pm Pacific Standard Time, eight hours west of UTC,
	      then the time is output as follows:

		     option    time output
		     -z        1990/01/12 04:00:00	  (default)
		     -zLT      1990-01-11 20:00:00-08
		     -z+05:30  1990-01-12 09:30:00+05:30

EXAMPLES

	   rlog  -L  -R  RCS/*
	   rlog  -L  -h  RCS/*
	   rlog  -L  -l  RCS/*
	   rlog  RCS/*

       The first command prints the names of all RCS files in the subdirectory RCS that have locks.  The second  command  prints  the  headers	of
       those files, and the third prints the headers plus the log messages of the locked revisions.  The last command prints complete information.

ENVIRONMENT

       RCSINIT
	      options prepended to the argument list, separated by spaces.  See ci(1) for details.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The exit status is zero if and only if all operations were successful.

IDENTIFICATION

       Author: Walter F. Tichy.
       Manual Page Revision: 5.9; Release Date: 1995/06/16.
       Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 Walter F. Tichy.
       Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Paul Eggert.

SEE ALSO

       ci(1), co(1), ident(1), rcs(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro(1), rcsmerge(1), rcsfile(5)
       Walter F. Tichy, RCS--A System for Version Control, Software--Practice & Experience 15, 7 (July 1985), 637-654.

BUGS

       The  separator  for  revision ranges in the -r option used to be - instead of :, but this leads to confusion when symbolic names contain -.
       For backwards compatibility rlog -r still supports the old - separator, but it warns about this obsolete use.

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								    1995/06/16								   RLOG(1)