BK-RENUMBER(1)

📦 version 7.3.3, in alpine 3.24

🎀 NAME 🎀

bk renumber — regenerate the revision history numbers. This one’s from the BitKeeper User’s Manual, bestie, and it’s lowkey iconic. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk renumber [−nq] [file ... | −]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so this command exists primarily because Sun’s Teamware had some bugs at one point and put nonsensical revision numbers in the s.files. 😭 Not the vibe.

Fortunately, SCCS does not really care about the revision numbers — it maintains the graph structure elsewhere. The way that it just keeps the real structure somewhere else? Highkey genius. ✨

This program uses that other information to start over and renumber the entire graph. Slay, honestly. 🫶

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • −n — do not do anything, dry run. Literally “look but don’t touch” mode, bestie. 🙈
  • −q — be quiet. Shhh, no chatter, just vibes. 🤫

🦋 CATEGORY 🦋

Utility — that’s the category, periodt. 👑

💖 xoxo, bestie — this page is from BitKeeper Inc, source/version tag 1E1. The footer also has bk renumber(none) hanging out on the right, and no date line, so that’s the whole cute sign-off, fr fr. 🫶

📦 where this page comes from
  • alpine 3.24: bitkeeper-doc 7.3.3-r1 · Apache-2.0
  • Copyright (c) 1998-2015 BitKeeper Inc
  • Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc
  • 💖 girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms