Automagic checkin (RCS - ci) before patch

[Paul Eggert]

bill at camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:

>I've found the easiest way to handle patches is to maintain a
>pure copy of the sources (not checked in to RCS locally) for
>patching purposes.  This way I don't get a bunch of patches
>failed becauses of different RCS Revision numbers.  This is
>particularly true with cvs which checks in outside sources on the
>1.1.1 tree regardless of its original revision numbers.

If you have RCS 5.5, you can use `co -ko' to check out the file just as
it was originally checked in.  This avoids the revision number blues
when patching.  `co -ko' works even if the file was checked in by a
pre-5.5 version of RCS.