The
aegis -New_BRanch
command is used to
create a new branch.
A branch is very similar to a
change,
except that a branch may have changes (or branches) of its own,
and a change may not.
You may choose your own branch number, if you want. Zero and positives are legal, but negatives are not. It is an error if that number has already been used for a change or another branch. If you do not specify a change number, the lowest available positive number (1 or more) will be used.
The new branch will be a special sort of change. It will be in the 'being developed' state, but the usual commands in that stat (build, diff, etc) will not work. Instead, you must create changes on the branch, and when those changes are integrated into the branch, this is the equivalent of build, diff, etc, on the branch. Once the branch is completed, the aede(1) command may be used to advance it to the being reviewed state, and from then on it becomes a normal change. Should it be returned to the being developed state for any reason, it will once again require sub-changes to alter anything.
The following options are understood:
-HelpThis option may be used to obtain more information about how to use the aegis program.
-Output filenameThis option may be used to specify a filename which is to be written with the automatically determined branch number. Useful for writing scripts.
-REAson textThis 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.
-WaitThis 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_WaitThis 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.
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.
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.
The recommended alias for this command is
csh% alias aenbr 'aegis -nbr \!* -v'
sh$ aenbr(){aegis -nbr "$@" -v}
aegis version 4.22 Copyright (C) 1991-2006 Peter Miller; All rights reserved.
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.