Re: [patch #4573] Fix for keyword expansion problem/mis-feature during commit

[Rahul Bhargava]

Hi Mark -

We are already aware of this feature. If you read the
initial post, we are not talking about disabling keywords
or excluding certain keywords using CVS from feature
branch.

We are talking about the mis-feature that causes CVS to
bump up revisions when a user commits a file which only
differs in keywords.

The proposed patch preserves the admin's ability to use
keywords without creating spurious versions on the tree.

We speak for 100s of companies using CVS today who would
like to get the submitted patch as an optional feature in
CVS. No we are not asking that default behaviour be changed.
Iff an admin wants the behaviour we outlined in the initial
post they can enable ignoring of keywords during classification
phase of commit.

If an admin/user wants to use $..$ for their own needs they do
not have to turn on the feature! All works as before.  Again this
is being proposed as an optional behavior, no need to change
semantics if you don't  want.

Regards

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> Follow-up Comment #13, patch #4573 (project cvs):
>
> FEATURE branch already has the ability to disable
> RCS keyword expansion either selectively, or altogether.
>
> To disable it totally, use the CVSROOT/config line:
>
> KeywordExpand=i
>
> to disable just the expansion of $Id$ and $Header$, use
> the CVSROOT/config line:
>
> KeywordExpand=eId,Header
>
> So, a CVS administrator who wants to use $Id: ... $ lines
> for their own purposes and not have RCS expansion change
> anything on them would just need to put
>
> KeywordExpand=eId
>
> and not worry about it as all modules in the CVS project
> would no longer do expansion of that RCS keyword.
>
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