Re: $Name$ Keyword does not expand

[Mike Kistler]

Hello!

I found the post below in the info-cvs
archives from April of 2001.  Can anyone tell me if this issue has
been fixed?  I have just run into this problem (using a somewhat backlevel
version of cvs ... 1.11.2).  In my opinion, if cvs doesn't substitute
for $Name when the tag used is a branch, then this is just flat broken.
 Why would it not be?  The documentation for $Name is pretty
clear:

Name:  the tag that was used to
retrieve the file.

So please tell me that this is already
fixed, and I just need to move to a newer version of cvs.  Thanks!

> David D. Hagood wrote:
>
> > 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).

Mike Kistler