[cvsnt] Sticky option (-ko) permanent or only on in working directory?

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Fri Aug 18 13:23:39 BST 2006


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Nick Duane wrote:
> But the keyword is still getting expanded in this file.  I can't figure it 
> out as it seemed as if things were working ok locally, but maybe it just 

The 3rd party file probably already contains expanded keywords.  If you 
set -ko on a revision it simply stops any further expansion from that 
revision onwards.

> expanded.  I wanted to be able to selectively turn off keyword expansion on 
> certain files and have it stay that way.  At this point I'm going to edit 

This is exactly how it works.

> CVSROOT\config and add KeywordExpand=i to turn it off globally.

??? there is  no such option?

Tony


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