Sadly, there is no RCS tag on Unix.stackexchange or ServerFault, so I am posting this on StackOverflow.
I'm spoiled by SVN/Git, and I need to see the history of a file. With my scripts I am using RCS to track changes made to system configuration files, so it would be neat if I could view them like I do with Git. for git I use git log -p to get this kind of output.
Is there a flag for rlog or rcsdiff or anything that lets me get a log that has the diffs?
Or must I use rcsdiff and a shell script to implement this myself?
rcshist (written by Ian Dowse) does what was requested. I do not know of prebuilt packages, but it builds easily.
Here is sample output:
REV:1.346 aclocal.m4 2012/09/03 17:21:43 tom
tags: xterm-281s, xterm-281r, xterm-281q, xterm-281p, xterm-281o,
xterm-281n, xterm-281m, xterm-281l, xterm-281k, xterm-281j,
xterm-281i, xterm-281h, xterm-281g, xterm-281f, xterm-281e
change default for --with-xpm
--- aclocal.m4 2012/08/25 23:05:32 1.345
+++ aclocal.m4 2012/09/03 17:21:43 1.346
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $XTermId: rcshist.html,v 1.16 2015/03/01 20:34:33 tom Exp $
+dnl $XTermId: rcshist.html,v 1.16 2015/03/01 20:34:33 tom Exp $
dnl
dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dnl
@@ -3554,7 +3554,7 @@
AC_SUBST(no_pixmapdir)
])dnl
dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-dnl CF_WITH_XPM version: 1 updated: 2012/07/22 09:18:02
+dnl CF_WITH_XPM version: 2 updated: 2012/09/03 05:42:04
dnl -----------
dnl Test for Xpm library, update compiler/loader flags if it is wanted and
dnl found.
@@ -3571,7 +3571,7 @@
AC_ARG_WITH(xpm,
[ --with-xpm=DIR use Xpm library for colored icon, may specify path],
[cf_Xpm_library="$withval"],
- [cf_Xpm_library=no])
+ [cf_Xpm_library=yes])
AC_MSG_RESULT($cf_Xpm_library)
if test "$cf_Xpm_library" != no ; then