man aenpa (Commandes) - create a new project alias
NAME
-New_Project_Alias - create a new project alias
SYNOPSIS
-New_Project_Alias
[
option...
]
project-name
alias-name
-Help
-VERSion
DESCRIPTION
The -New_Project_Alias command is used to create a projects alias, so that branches of projects may be referred by a shorter or more specific name.
The project name must be given on the command line; the default project is not sufficient. The project named may be a top-level project, or it may be a branch (to any depth of branch).
The new alias name must also be given on the command line, and it must be the second name.
Example
Aliases may be used in may ways. The most common is to give a particular release a code name. You would do this by saying aenpa example.4.2 sydney This would make ``sydney'' an alias for the ``example.4.2'' branch.
Another use for aliases is to have a fixed alias for your active branch,
so that your developer team does not need to change their default project,
even though the branch number moves on for each release. You could say
aenpa example.4.2 example.cur
This would make ``example.cur'' an alias for the ``example.4.2'' branch.
When this was finished, and 4.3 started, a project administrator could say
aerpa example.cur
aenpa example.4.3 example.cur
Now ``example.cur'' is an alias for the ``example.4.3'' branch, but the
developers need only reference ``example.cur'' to always work on the
right branch.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
- -Help
This option may be used to obtain more information about how to use the program.
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 are long, this means ignoring the extra leading '-'. The "--option=value" convention is also understood.
ERRORS
It is an error if the old project does not exist.
It is an error if the current user is not a project administrator.
It is an error if the new alias name look like a branch name.
It is an error if the new alias contains unprintable characters.
EXIT STATUS
The command will exit with a status of 1 on any error. The command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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.
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
version
Copyright Peter Miller;
All rights reserved.
The program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
for details use the ' -VERSion License' command.
This is free software
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
for details use the ' -VERSion License' command.
AUTHOR
tab(;); l r l. Peter Miller;E-Mail:;millerp@canb.auug.org.au CW/\/\*;WWW:;http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/