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Re: How to change keyword expansion format


From: Mark D. Baushke
Subject: Re: How to change keyword expansion format
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:46:40 -0700

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Ivan Ivanov <address@hidden> writes:

> I am using quite successfully CVS Keywords and the
> keyword expansion format and I have some minor
> questions on these useul feature:
> 1) $RCSfile$ is expanded to $RCSfile: myfile.txt,v $.
> How can I configure the expanasion so that $RCSfile$
> is substituted with $myfile.txt$?

Your desired change in keyword expansion is not
possible with the stock version of cvs without
modification to the sources.

> 2) $Date$ is expanded to $Date: 2004/06/24 08:25:59 $.
> How to configure the expansion so that it become 
> $Date: 2004/06/24 $?

Your desired change in keyword expansion is not
possible with the stock version of cvs without
modification to the sources.

> 3) The $Date$ is expanded to the date of the last
> commit, which perfectly suits the developers' need.
> However, when  we make an official source
> distribution, we want the $Date$ to be expanded to the
> current date. Is there a way the files in the
> repository to be touched? 

No.

> Touch is not the exact word, because we do not
> want to change the last commit date, we simply
> wants when we create distibution $Date$ be
> expanded to the current date. Any ideas?

It would appear that you want a program of some
sort (possibly a perl script) to be run on your
sources sometime after you do a checkout.

        -- Mark
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