From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 18:05:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D31916A431 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 18:05:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8BE43D73 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 18:04:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k45I4VtU032601 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 5 May 2006 21:04:32 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k45I4gDL032067; Fri, 5 May 2006 21:04:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k45I4gTX032066; Fri, 5 May 2006 21:04:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 21:04:42 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Doug Hardie Message-ID: <20060505180442.GA32031@gothmog.pc> References: <3E569DDE-F1D2-46D4-B2CC-B5E2E10E4E2E@lafn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E569DDE-F1D2-46D4-B2CC-B5E2E10E4E2E@lafn.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.398, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.80, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: cvs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 18:05:04 -0000 On 2006-05-05 10:45, Doug Hardie wrote: > I have been building a cvs structure for a bunch of code and have > a couple questions I have not been able to find answers to in the > archives/documentation. When you run ident on many FreeBSD modules > you see the identifier "FreeBSD" used frequently. It appears that > cvs is properly updating the information in those entries, but I > don't see how cvs is configured to make that happen. FreeBSD is not > one of the cvs recognized keywords. I would like to use a unique > keyword for my stuff. ident finds it fine in the files, but cvs does > not update the version information. I suspect that somehow I need > to tell cvs about the keyword. See this article for details of the FreeBSD CVS setup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/ Part of this explains how our `cfg_local.pm' works and you can use a similar trick for any custom $FreeBSD$-like keyword you want.