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Re: commit doesn't perform keyword substitution
From: |
Robin Farine |
Subject: |
Re: commit doesn't perform keyword substitution |
Date: |
22 Feb 2002 16:16:19 +0100 |
Forget this, I made the typical error of writing an e-mail while in a
hurry and completely failed to explain what I actually meant.
Sorry,
Robin
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 12:34, I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The documentation mentions that 'cvs commit ...' automatically
> substitutes keywords (on files without any sticky -k option). But when I
> do the following on a file 'toto.c' that contains /* $Id$ */:
>
> * cvs add toto.c
> * cvs commit -m "..." toto.c
>
> the file toto.c,v still contains $Id$. The keyword only gets substituted
> during a checkout, export or update which seems a non-sense to me. I
> really need to know who did a commit rather that who did the export or
> ...
>
> CVS release: cvs 1.11.1p1-3 from the Debian woody GNU/Linux
> distribution.
>
> Did I miss something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robin
>