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pvc <cmd>: patch version control command line utility.

NOTICE: pvc now works but will have bugs and the API is subject to change. Use at your own risk and always back up work that you are using pvc to track (aka use git and pvc together).

Installation

Simply follow civlua's #Installation and add the following to your .bashrc

alias pvc="civlua pvc"

pvc is a version control system similar to git or mercurial, but is ultra simple: branches are simply a base followed by a set of unix patches with incrementing id. The only fundamental disadvantage (or advantage) of using pvc instead of git is that pvc supports only fast-forward merges, which are the cleanest and simplest to understand.
Builtin cmds:

init dir: initialize the dir (default=CWD) for PVC.
diff branch1 branch2: get the difference (aka the patch) between branch1 (default=at) and branch2 (default=local). Each value can be either a branch name or a directory which contains a .pvcpaths file.

See Usage for how this can be used for the first commit.
commit: add changes to the current branch as a patch and move at forward. The commit message can be written to the COMMIT file or be specified after the -- argument (multiple are space-separated).
at [branch

: if branch is empty then return the active branch#id.
If branch is set then this sets the active branch#id, causing the local directory to be updated (default id=tip).

git equivalent: checkout

* tip [branch

Installation

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