Re: $Name$ Keyword does not expand

[David D. Hagood]

Markus Grunwald wrote:

> Hi there !
>
> I would like to use the $Name$ Keyword in my java source. To do this, I added 
> the line:
>
> public final static String cvsRelease = new String("$Name$");
>
> to my source. Then, I tagged it "prerelease-1_0". To get the substitution, I 
> executed
>
> cvs -d  ":pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot" checkout -r 
> prerelease-1_0 UserAccount
>
> but the line just expanded to
>
> public final static String cvsRelease = new String("$Name:  $");
>
> I thought, there should stand "$Name: prerelease-1_0$" ??? Other tags 
> ($id$...) work just fine.
>
> The log says, the tag is there:


Is prerelease-1_0 a branch or a leaf? If is is a branch, then it won't 
get expanded (I've complained about this behavior before in this 
discussion, look for my previous posts).