Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 02:14:13 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ ... How? Message-ID: <19991209021412.A24546@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.991208235547.3582A-100000@morse.umd.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.991208235547.3582A-100000@morse.umd.edu>
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Jamie, > Having been playing with CVS for the past few days, I would like to know > how to use my own "$Jamie$" so I do not clobber anyone else's $Id$ tags. > This came up on the OpenBSD list today, but as usual, they were less than > helpful and turned it into a pissing match. I am hoping someone around > here can explain it. See the file CVSROOT/options. It allows you to substitute one tag for another. So you'd want something like: tag=Jamie=Id to substitute $Jamie$ for $Id$, or tag=Jamie=CVSHeader to substitute $Jamie$ for $CVSHeader$ (which gives path in the repository, not just filename) Note that CVS will *NOT* support using more than 1 tag. I have patches that hack around it to allow 3, but they're ugly and just perpetuate the actual problem. It's easy to extend the technique to an arbitrary number of tag substitutions, but it's ugly. I haven't had time to create a *REAL* solution to it. Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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