scripts for working with rcs?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I am looking for some ideas or scripts for working with rcs (or roll your
own) to help with the following:

A project I use doesn't have any public CVS, but have snapshot tarballs.

So I want to download via cron each night, extract and do a "ci"
check-in.

I will be making my own local modifications also (which may conflict). So
I want to merge in the changes via rcsmerge (and diff3 -E style).

I am hoping to automate all this. Basically, I am trying to recreate "cvs
up -dP" behaviour that will merge in my own changes cleanly or add
conflict lines (if necessary), so I can easily share my "rcsdiff -u"
changes.

I guess rcs is not needed, but anything to automate the rcsmerge/diff3
type work would be good.

I guess I could have a directory with my work. And a directories with
previous snapshot and latest daily snapshot. Then script this daily
download, extraction, running diff3 and replace my version with the new
diff3 -E result.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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