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Page Source for PodWikiRCS

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=head3 PodWiki Version Control System - RCS 

PodWiki uses L<RCS|http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/>
as its version control system. You can access the version information
any time for every PodWiki page. Follow the B<InfoAboutPage>
link. 

For every version of your page will be displayed a box. From this box
you can view this particular version. Or you can restore an older
version as the current version. The latter feature is very handy if
some wag edited a page in an unfriendly manner. 

In addition it is possible to see what has been changed between the
previous version of a page. Just click on the B<diff ..> button
to view the differences. Diffs are displayed with some contextual lines
before and after the change. Orange colored lines were removed and
green lines were added. Gray lines are unchanged and are displayed as
context. 

=head3 RCS keywords 

You can use all of the RCS special keywords which will be automatically
substituted by RCS during checkin of a new version of a page. 

B<Please note, that those keywords cannot be used as variable
names!> 

=head4 Keywords 

Here is the list of keywords currently maintained by RCS. All times are
given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, sometimes called GMT). 

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=item B<\$Author\$> 

The login name of the user who checked in the revision. 

=item B<\$Date\$> 

The date and time the revision was checked in. 

=item B<\$Header\$> 

A standard header containing the full pathname of the RCS file, the
revision number, the date and time, the author, the state, and the
locker (if locked). 

=item B<\$Id\$> 

Same as B<\$Header\$>, except that the RCS filename is without a
path. 

=item B<\$Locker\$> 

The login name of the user who locked the revision (empty if not
locked). 

=item B<\$Log\$> 

The log message supplied during checkin. For ident's purposes, this is
equivalent to B<\$RCSfile\$>. 

=item B<\$Name\$> 

The symbolic name used to check out the revision, if any. 

=item B<\$RCSfile\$> 

The name of the RCS file without a path. 

=item B<\$Revision\$> 

The revision number assigned to the revision. 

=item B<\$Source\$> 

The full pathname of the RCS file. 

=item B<\$State\$> 

The state assigned to the revision. 

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