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Re: $Name not working$
From: |
Greg A. Woods |
Subject: |
Re: $Name not working$ |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:27:45 -0400 (EDT) |
[ On Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 15:04:44 (-0500), Howard Chandler wrote: ]
> Subject: $Name not working$
>
> OK, I read the manual and figured out how to get the revision number
> inserted into the source file using $Revision$. What's the trick for
> getting $Name$ to work. I'm using winCVS beta 1.3. The explorer like
> thingie shows a tag for the file. Is this a known bug or am I missing
> something?
use "cvs export -kv -r RELEASE-TAG [-d DIRNAME] MODULENAME" to create a
directory (in DIRNAME) full of files with $Name expanded to its value.
(i.e. it doesn't work, and isn't supposed to work, in an ordinary
working directory -- only for freezing a release with "cvs export")
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