>   * Determining what to commit.
> 
>     You'd have to have RCS keep a log of all versioned files it
>     touched, and extend .commit() to accept the keyword list "files"
>     and commit only those files.  This is doable, but maybe not worth
>     the trouble.

On the other hand, just attemting to commit evverything after each
command would make it nice and easy to commit bug fixes:
  be --auto-commit status XYZ fixed
which would commit whatever changes you had outstanding with an
appropriate commit message.