[lug] CVS question

[Nate Duehr]

I'm not sure if it would be easier or not, but CVS itself understands certain 
macros placed in source and can do the timestamping for you, which leaves 
timestamping at the checkin point, not at the user desktop.  (How many 
developers do you think actually check their clocks or run NTP?  GRIN)

They call this "keyword expansion" and a short list of them would be:

$Author$ - person who committed this revision
$Date$ - duh
$Id$ - filename, revision, date and author all in one
$Revision$ - you guessed it
$Source$ - path to source tree in CVS
$Log$ - last log entry

There are quite a few more, I recommend Open Source Development with CVS from 
Coiolis OpenPress.  [I seriously "borrowed" from it for this e-mail!] 

Much of the book is GPL'ed and used to be easy to find on their web page, but 
the last time I was there they'd kinda messed up their site design (too 
cluttered) and I couldn't find it.  Cover price #39.99 and well worth it.  
Especially if you have to admin a CVS repository and need to understand the 
internals.

I've read the Cederqvist cover to cover, and I like this book a lot better. 

Quoting "Scott A. Herod" <herod at interact-tv.com>:

> I've been having emacs time stamp my source files everytime that I
> save them.  Last night I noticed that if I try to check in copies 
> from multiple places, the time stamp appears as a conflict to CVS.

--
Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with CD-ROM's."