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aegis -New_Change(1)	    General Commands Manual	  aegis	-New_Change(1)

NAME
	aegis new change - add a new change to a project

SYNOPSIS
	aegis -New_Change [ number ] -File attr-file [ option...  ]
	aegis -New_Change [ number ] -Edit [ option...	]
	aegis -New_Change -List	[ option...  ]
	aegis -New_Change -Help

DESCRIPTION
	The  aegis  -New_Change	 command  is  used  to	add  a new change to a
	project.  See aecattr(5) for information on the	format	of  the	 attr-
	file.

	The  change  is	created	in the awaiting	development state.  The	change
	is not assigned	to any user.  The change has no	development directory.
	boxwid = 1 down	S0: arrow " new" ljust " change" ljust S1: box "await-
	ing" "development" arrow " develop" ljust " begin" ljust S2: box  "be-
	ing"  "developed" move to 1/3<S1.nw,S1.sw> spline -> left 0.75 then up
	2/3 "new" "change" "undo" move to S2.w T1: spline -> left 0.75 then up
	11/12	  then to 1/3<S1.sw,S1.nw> " develop" ljust " begin"  ljust  "
	undo" ljust at T1.c - (0.75,0)

	You  may  choose  your own change number if you	want, provided that it
	has not	been used already.  If you do not  specify  a  change  number,
	aegis  will  allocate  the lowest unused change	number.	 The first few
	change numbers are reserved for	branches later in the project, and  so
	automatically  allocated change	numbers	will usually not start from 1.
	See aepa(1) and	aepattr(5) for more information.

	You must give the -Project option, see below.

   Notification
	This is	one of the rare	"state transitions" which does not have	a  no-
	tification  command.  The assumption is	this command is	invoked	by the
	system which usually receives notifications.

OPTIONS
	The following options are understood:

	-Edit
		Edit the attributes with a text	editor,	this is	 usually  more
		convenient  than  supplying  a text file.  The VISUAL and then
		EDITOR environment variables are consulted for the name	of the
		editor to use; defaults	to vi(1) if neither is set.   See  the
		visual_command and editor_command fields in aeuconf(1) for how
		to override this specifically for Aegis.

		Warning:  Aegis	 tries	to be well behaved when	faced with er-
		rors, so the temporary file is left  in	 your  home  directory
		where  you  can	edit it	further	and re-use it with a -file op-
		tion.

		The -edit option may not be used in the	 background,  or  when
		the standard input is not a terminal.

	-Edit_BackGround
		Edit  the attributes with a dumb text editor, this is most of-
		ten desired when edit commands are being piped into the	editor
		via the	standard input.	 Only the EDITOR environment  variable
		is  consulted for the name of the editor to use; it is a fatal
		error if it is not set.	 See the editor_command	field in  aeu-
		conf(1)	for how	to override this specifically for Aegis.

	-File filename
		Take the attributes from the specified file.  The filename `-'
		is understood to mean the standard input.

	-Help
		This  option  may be used to obtain more information about how
		to use the aegis program.

	-List
		This option may	be used	to obtain a list of suitable  subjects
		for this command.  The list may	be more	general	than expected.

	-Output	filename
		This  option  may be used to specify a filename	which is to be
		written	with the automatically determined change number.  Use-
		ful for	writing	scripts.

	-Project name
		This option is used to select the project for the new change.

		You must supply	the -Project option to this command.   Experi-
		ence  has  shown  that	when  a	 site  has  a number of	active
		projects or several active branches on a project, new  changes
		are  frequently	created	against	the wrong project or the wrong
		branch.	 Making	the project explicit reduces this problem.

	-REAson	text
		This option may	be used	to attach a comment to the change his-
		tory generated by this command.	 You will need to  use	quotes
		to insulate the	spaces from the	shell.

	-TERse
		This  option may be used to cause listings to produce the bare
		minimum	of  information.   It  is  usually  useful  for	 shell
		scripts.

	-Verbose
		This option may	be used	to cause aegis to produce more output.
		By  default  aegis  only produces output on errors.  When used
		with the -List option this option causes column	headings to be
		added.

	-Wait	This option may	be used	to require Aegis commands to wait  for
		access	locks,	if  they  cannot be obtained immediately.  De-
		faults to the user's lock_wait_preference  if  not  specified,
		see aeuconf(5) for more	information.

	-No_Wait
		This  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 op-
	tional.	 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	inter-
	preted 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	"--op-
	tion=value" convention is also understood.

RECOMMENDED ALIAS
	The recommended	alias for this command is
	csh%	alias aenc 'aegis -nc \!* -v'
	sh$	aenc(){aegis -nc "$@" -v}

ERRORS
	It  is	an  error  if  the current user	is not an administrator	of the
	project.  (In some cases it is possible	for developers of a project to
	create changes,	see aepattr(5) for more	information.)

EXIT STATUS
	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 er-
	rors.

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
	tkaenc(1)
		GUI interface to the aenc(1) command.

	aeca(1)	modify the attributes of a change

	aedb(1)	begin development of a change

	aena(1)	add a new administrator	to a project

	aencu(1)
		remove a new change from a project

	aenpr(1)
		create a new project

	aepa(1)	modify the attributes of a project

	aecattr(5)
		change attributes file format

	aepattr(5)
		project	attributes file	format

	aeuconf(5)
		user configuration file	format

COPYRIGHT
	aegis version 4.25.D510
	Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993,	1994, 1995, 1996,  1997,  1998,	 1999,
	2000,  2001,  2002,  2003,  2004,  2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
	2011, 2012 Peter Miller

	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.

AUTHOR
	Peter Miller   E-Mail:	 pmiller@opensource.org.au
	/\/\*		  WWW:	 http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/

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