NAME¶
aegis new change - add a new change to a project
SYNOPSIS¶
aegis -New_Change [
number ]
-File attr-file
[
option... ]
aegis -New_Change [
number ]
-Edit [
option... ]
aegis -New_Change -List [
option... ]
aegis -New_Change -Help
DESCRIPTION¶
The
aegis -New_Change command is used to add a new change to a
project. See
aecattr(5) for information on the format of the
attr-file.
The change is created in the
awaiting development state. The change is
not assigned to any user. The change has no development directory. boxwid = 1
down S0: arrow " new" ljust " change" ljust S1: box
"awaiting" "development" arrow " develop" ljust
" begin" ljust S2: box "being" "developed"
spline -> from 1/3<S1.nw,S1.sw> then left 0.75 then up 2/3
"new" "change" "undo" T1: spline -> from S2.w
then left 0.75 then up 11/12 then to 1/3<S1.sw,S1.nw> "
develop" ljust " begin" ljust " undo" ljust at T1.c -
(0.75,0)
You may choose your own change number if you want, provided that it has not been
used already. If you do not specify a change number, aegis will allocate the
lowest unused change number. The first few change numbers are reserved for
branches later in the project, and so automatically allocated change numbers
will usually not start from 1. See
aepa(1) and
aepattr(5) for
more information.
You
must give the
-Project option, see below.
Notification¶
This is one of the rare "state transitions" which does not have a
notification command. The assumption is this command is invoked by the system
which usually receives notifications.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are understood:
- -Edit
-
Edit the attributes with a text editor, this
is usually more convenient than supplying a text file. The
VISUAL and
then
EDITOR environment variables are consulted for the name of the
editor to use; defaults to
vi(1) if neither is set. See the
visual_command and
editor_command fields in
aeuconf(1)
for how to override this specifically for Aegis.
Warning: Aegis tries to be well behaved when faced with errors, so the temporary
file is left in your home directory where you can edit it further and re-use
it with a
-file option.
The
-edit option may not be used in the background, or when the standard
input is not a terminal.
- -Edit_BackGround
-
Edit the attributes with a dumb text editor, this is most often desired when
edit commands are being piped into the editor via the standard input. Only
the EDITOR environment variable is consulted for the name of the
editor to use; it is a fatal error if it is not set. See the
editor_command field in aeuconf(1) for how to override this
specifically for Aegis.
- -File filename
-
Take the attributes from the specified file. The filename `-' is understood
to mean the standard input.
- -Help
-
This option may be used to obtain more information about how to use the
aegis program.
- -List
-
This option may be used to obtain a list of suitable subjects for this
command. The list may be more general than expected.
- -Output filename
- This option may be used to specify a filename which is to
be written with the automatically determined change number. Useful for
writing scripts.
- -Project name
This option is used to select the project for
the new change.
You
must supply the
-Project option to this command. Experience
has shown that when a site has a number of active projects or several active
branches on a project, new changes are frequently created against the wrong
project or the wrong branch. Making the project explicit reduces this
problem.
- -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.
- -TERse
-
This option may be used to cause listings to produce the bare minimum of
information. It is usually useful for shell scripts.
- -Verbose
- This option may be used to cause aegis to produce more
output. By default aegis only produces output on errors. When used with
the -List option this option causes column headings to be
added.
- -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.
RECOMMENDED ALIAS¶
The recommended alias for this command is
csh% alias aenc 'aegis -nc \!* -v'
sh$ aenc(){aegis -nc "$@" -v}
ERRORS¶
It is an error if the current user is not an administrator of the project. (In
some cases it is possible for developers of a project to create changes, see
aepattr(5) for more information.)
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.
SEE ALSO¶
- tkaenc(1)
- GUI interface to the aenc(1) command.
- aeca(1)
- modify the attributes of a change
- aedb(1)
- begin development of a change
- aena(1)
- add a new administrator to a project
- aencu(1)
- remove a new change from a project
- aenpr(1)
- create a new project
- aepa(1)
- modify the attributes of a project
- aecattr(5)
- change attributes file format
- aepattr(5)
- project attributes file format
- aeuconf(5)
- user configuration file format
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¶
