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Re: $Name not working$
From: |
Robert J. Clark |
Subject: |
Re: $Name not working$ |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:57:59 -0400 |
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:50:02 -0500
Howard Chandler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Have you actually gotten it to work in WinCVS or are you talking about
> the CLI?
I have gotten both to work. You might want to make sure you have the tag
specified as "$Name: $" <---- note the colon.
> On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 03:27 PM, Robert J. Clark wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:04:44 -0500
> > Howard Chandler <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> OK, I read the manual and figured out how to get the revision
> >number> inserted into the source file using $Revision$. What's the
> >trick for> getting $Name$ to work. I'm using winCVS beta 1.3. The
> >explorer like> thingie shows a tag for the file. Is this a known bug
> >or am I missing> something?
> >
> > The $Name$ keyword is only expanded when you do a CVS export, or
> > check out with an explicit tag. $Name$ expands to the name of the
> > tag used to check out the file. No tag, no expansion.
> >
> > <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html#SEC99>
> >
> > is the definitive manual, but you may also want to check out:
> >
> > <http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/>
> > <http://cvsbook.red-
> > bean.com/cvsbook.html#Keyword_Substitution__RCS_Keywords_>
> >
> > - Rob