SCCS vc in emacs 23 does not work for me

SCCS vc in emacs 23 does not work for me

[Ron Mitchell]

I've just installed emacs 23.1 on HP-UX.  Our shop uses SCCS for version
control.  I find that the emacs vc commands don't work, for example C-x
v l (vc-print-log), C-x v v to check out a file etc.  

After a bit of investigation what seems to be happening is that emacs is
attempting to run "sccs" commands against the repository s-files rather
than against the plain filenames themselves.  E.g. emacs is doing

     sccs get -e /myprojectdir/SCCS/s.myfile.c

But that's not allowed and does not work, at least on my OS.  What you
should do is

     sccs get -e myfile.c

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?  I guess I may be the only person in
the world using emacs and SCCS on HP-UX!

Thanks in advance,

Ron

Re: SCCS vc in emacs 23 does not work for me

[Kevin Rodgers]

Ron Mitchell wrote:
> I've just installed emacs 23.1 on HP-UX.  Our shop uses SCCS for version
> control.  I find that the emacs vc commands don't work, for example C-x
> v l (vc-print-log), C-x v v to check out a file etc.  
> 
> After a bit of investigation what seems to be happening is that emacs is
> attempting to run "sccs" commands against the repository s-files rather
> than against the plain filenames themselves.  E.g. emacs is doing
> 
>      sccs get -e /myprojectdir/SCCS/s.myfile.c
> 
> But that's not allowed and does not work, at least on my OS.  What you
> should do is
> 
>      sccs get -e myfile.c
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this?  I guess I may be the only person in
> the world using emacs and SCCS on HP-UX!

Try (setq vc-sccs-master-templates '("%s%s" vc-sccs-search-project-dir))

or (setq vc-sccs-master-templates '("%s%s"))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: SCCS vc in emacs 23 does not work for me

[Ron Mitchell]

Thanks for the reply, Kevin.  Not back at work until Monday; I'll give
it a try then.

Ron

Re: SCCS vc in emacs 23 does not work for me

[Stefan Monnier]

> After a bit of investigation what seems to be happening is that emacs is
> attempting to run "sccs" commands against the repository s-files rather
> than against the plain filenames themselves.  E.g. Emacs is doing

>      sccs get -e /myprojectdir/SCCS/s.myfile.c

> But that's not allowed and does not work, at least on my OS.  What you
> should do is

>      sccs get -e myfile.c

Please use M-x report-emacs-bug so we can try and fix it for Emacs-23.2.


        Stefan