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Some options that require (or allow) additional information can take multiple items of that information in the form of a delim-separated list, a concatenation of items with one or more delimiter characters between adjacent items. Multiple adjacent delim characters count as a single delimiter.
Most often you will use comma (, or U+2C),
but RCS also permits others, depending on context.
In the following table,
“SPC” is the space character (U+20),
“LF” is the linefeed character (U+0A),
“TAB” is the tab character (U+09),
and
“semi” is ; (U+3B).
| context | permitted delimiter characters, notes |
|---|---|
| co -jjoins | SPC TAB comma joins is a delim-separated list, each item of which is a join pair of the form rev:rev. See Invoking co. |
| rcs -aaccessors rcs -eaccessors | SPC LF TAB comma accessors is a delim-separated list of logins. See Invoking rcs. |
| rcs -orevspecs rlog -rrevspecs | semi comma revspecs is a delim-separated list, each item of which has one of the forms: REV REV1: REV1- REV1:REV2 REV1-REV2 The variants in the second column use hyphen ( See Invoking rcs, See Invoking rlog.
Note that although the “join pair” for co -j
above is identical to a |
| rlog -llockers rlog -w[authors] | SPC TAB LF semi comma Both lockers and authors are a delim-separated list of logins. Note that authors is completely optional. See Invoking rlog. |
| rlog -sstates | SPC TAB LF semi comma states is a delim-separated list of states (see State option). See Invoking rlog. |
| rlog -ddates | SPC TAB LF semi comma dates is a delim-separated list of date/time specifications (see Date option). See Invoking rlog. |
Maintainer’s Note: This embarrassment of choice for delim characters will probably be reduced to simply one character in RCS 6: comma.
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