[cvsnt] Re: Keyword Expansion

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Feb 8 02:34:21 GMT 2005


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John De Lello wrote:
> Maybe I'm approaching this wrong. Here's what I am trying to do. I am
> locally storing in my cvs repo a 3rd party open source php system that I am
> customizing for my company. However, they have a header on every file that
> has the current version and the person checking it in. I need to preserve
> that information when I commit those files into my repository, otherwise
> when I grab a new version from the sourceforge CVS and run a diff, it looks
> like I've changed every single file since the files now all have my name
> from when I checked them into my repository. 

-ko will do that I think.

> I don't want CVS to modify the keywords when I import or when I commit
> files. Is there a way to do that for an entire module?

Only by changing the expansions on the current revisions (or deleting 
the RCS files and reimporting if you've only just setup).

Tony



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