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On May 5, 2006, at 11:04, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2006-05-05 10:45, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> 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.

Thanks.  I did figure it out.  For anyone else who wants the simple way:

To have XXX and Id work as a keywords edit the config file in CVSROOT  
in the repository.  Add the following two lines:

tag=XXX=CVSHeader
tagexpand=iXXX,Id

Only the XXX and Id keywords will then expand.