RCS check in of foreign source

[Scott R. Presnell]

Hi...
	I have a question about using RCS with source code from someone
else.  Lets say I get some source code from someone, they've used RCS so
there are RCS keywords and revision numbers in the source files.  What I'd
like to do is create a RCS file for each of the source files, continue work
on them for porting and patching and the like, then do an rcsdiff against
where I started and where I am, and use that as a patch file.  All I need
to do is recreate the last RCS "state" this source code was in.

	OK, you say, use ci or rcs: If I do that, then lots of header
infomation changes to the local information and therefore *every* file is
now different from the original as far as RCS is concerned.  Not what I
wanted, I only changed 2 of the 10 source files.  Besides, its *ugly*. 

	OK, you say, use "ci -k": That's much closer, the local information
is not used (the information from the file is), but upon the implicit co
that rcsdiff does, the log message, created by ci -k, is inserted into the
temporary file that is diffed against.  Hence, again *every* file is
different as far as RCS is concerned.

	So. How do I do this?  Am I missing a flag somewhere?

	Thanks for your help.

	- Scott Presnell


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