[lug] CVS question

[Ken Weinert]

Well, in that case you could have emacs write the date in as 
$Date: date_goes_here$. cvs diff won't know the difference and when 
you commit the file it will get the "correct" (well, at least the 
system) date.

* Scott A. Herod (herod at interact-tv.com) [010213 20:02]:
> Yes, I actually use $Date$ as well but typically don't check stuff
> in until it has stablized a bit.  ( That also avoids the quandry of
> having to add then remove files a lot. )  Of course I've accidently
> deleted important stuff in the past before I checked it in.
> 
> Also, I noticed last night that the RPM version of CVS also 
> sticks "Version Management with CVS" by Cederqvist et al in 
> /usr/doc.  It's ps and can be viewed with ghostview.
> 
> Thanks for the note,
> 
> Scott
> 
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> > 
> > 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
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