NAME¶
aegis new branch - create a new branch
SYNOPSIS¶
aegis -New_BRanch [
number ][
option... ]
aegis -New_BRanch -Help
DESCRIPTION¶
The
aegis -New_BRanch command is used to create a new branch. A branch is
very similar to a
change, except that a branch may have changes (or
branches) of its own, and a change may not.
You may choose your own branch number, if you want. Zero and positives are
legal, but negatives are not. It is an error if that number has already been
used for a change or another branch. If you do not specify a change number,
the lowest available positive number (1 or more) will be used.
The new branch will be a special sort of change. It will be in the '
being
developed' state, but the usual commands in that stat (build, diff, etc)
will not work. Instead, you must create changes on the branch, and when those
changes are integrated into the branch, this is the equivalent of build, diff,
etc, on the branch. Once the branch is completed, the
aede(1) command
may be used to advance it to the
being reviewed state, and from then on
it becomes a normal change. Should it be returned to the
being
developed state for any reason, it will once again require sub-changes to
alter anything.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are understood:
- -Help
-
This option may be used to obtain more information about how to use the
aegis program.
- -Output filename
- This option may be used to specify a filename which is to be written with
the automatically determined branch number. Useful for writing
scripts.
- -REAson text
- This option may be used to attach a comment to the change history
generated by this command. You will need to use quotes to insulate the
spaces from the shell.
- -Wait
- This option may be used to require Aegis commands to wait for access
locks, if they cannot be obtained immediately. Defaults to the user's
lock_wait_preference if not specified, see aeuconf(5) for
more information.
- -No_Wait
- This option may be used to require Aegis commands to emit a fatal error if
access locks cannot be obtained immediately. Defaults to the user's
lock_wait_preference if not specified, see aeuconf(5) for
more information.
See also
aegis(1) for options common to all aegis commands.
All options may be abbreviated; the abbreviation is documented as the upper case
letters, all lower case letters and underscores (_) are optional. You must use
consecutive sequences of optional letters.
All options are case insensitive, you may type them in upper case or lower case
or a combination of both, case is not important.
For example: the arguments "-project, "-PROJ" and "-p"
are all interpreted to mean the
-Project option. The argument
"-prj" will not be understood, because consecutive optional
characters were not supplied.
Options and other command line arguments may be mixed arbitrarily on the command
line, after the function selectors.
The GNU long option names are understood. Since all option names for
aegis are long, this means ignoring the extra leading '-'. The "
--option=value" convention is also
understood.
EXIT STATUS¶
The
aegis command will exit with a status of 1 on any error. The
aegis command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
See
aegis(1) for a list of environment variables which may affect this
command. See
aepconf(5) for the project configuration file's
project_specific field for how to set environment variables for all
commands executed by Aegis.
RECOMMENDED ALIAS¶
The recommended alias for this command is
csh% alias aenbr 'aegis -nbr \!* -v'
sh$ aenbr(){aegis -nbr "$@" -v}
SEE ALSO¶
- aenbru(1)
- remove a branch
- aenc(1)
- create a new change
- aede(1)
- develop end
COPYRIGHT¶
aegis version 4.24.3.D001
Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Peter Miller
The aegis program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the '
aegis -VERSion License' command. This is free software and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the '
aegis -VERSion License' command.
AUTHOR¶
