MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

rcserror(3) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities rcserror(3)

NAME

rcserror — RCS error messages

DESCRIPTIONS

The following error messages are common to all RCS utilities:

Message: Ancestor for rev1 and rev2 undefined

Cause: When performing a join operation as speciﬁed by the –j option, co was unable

to ﬁnd a common ancestor for rev1 and rev2. This can occur, for example, if

both rev1 and rev2 are on the main branch.

Action: Ensure that you have entered the revision numbers or symbolic names correctly.

Message: Bad date: date

Cause: You speciﬁed a date that was not in a recognizable format.

Action: Specify the date using the format described in the co(1) man page under –d in

the Options section.

Message: Bad revision number

Cause: You speciﬁed a revision number that contained a non-numeric character be-

tween periods (.). This is not valid.

Action: Ensure that the revision number contains only digits and periods.

Message: Branch number branch not present.

Cause: You speciﬁed a revision number that contains a branch component that does not

exist.

Action: Enter a correct revision number.

Message: Branch number branch too high.

Cause: You tried to check in a ﬁle with a branched revision number; however, the bran-

chpoint does not exist. For example, you tried to check in revision 1.4.1.1 when

only revisions 1.1 and 1.2 exist.

Action: Specify a branch number that has an existing branchpoint.

Message: Branch number branch too low.

Cause: You speciﬁed a revision number whose ﬁrst component was lower than the ﬁrst

component of the lowest revision. For example, you speciﬁed

co –l1.1 file

when the lowest revision of file was 2.1.

Action: Specify a valid revision number.

Message: Can’t build current directory path: system error

Cause: See syserror(3).

Action: See syserror(3).

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