Hello!
I found the post below in the info-cvs archives from April of 2001. Can anyone tell me if this issue has been fixed? I have just run into this problem (using a somewhat backlevel version of cvs ... 1.11.2). In my opinion, if cvs doesn't substitute for $Name when the tag used is a branch, then this is just flat broken. Why would it not be? The documentation for $Name is pretty clear:
Name: the tag that was used to retrieve the file.
So please tell me that this is already fixed, and I just need to move to a newer version of cvs. Thanks!
> David D. Hagood wrote:
>
> > Markus Grunwald wrote:
> >
> > Hi there !
> > I would like to use the $Name$ Keyword in my java source. To do this, I added the line:
> >
> > public final static String cvsRelease = new String("$Name$");
> >
> > to my source. Then, I tagged it "prerelease-1_0". To get the substitution, I executed
> >
> > cvs -d ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot" checkout -r prerelease-1_0 UserAccount
> >
> > but the line just expanded to
> >
> > public final static String cvsRelease = new String("$Name: $");
> >
> > I thought, there should stand "$Name: prerelease-1_0$" ??? Other tags ($id$...) work just fine.
> >
> > The log says, the tag is there:
> >
>
> Is prerelease-1_0 a branch or a leaf? If is is a branch, then it won't get expanded (I've complained
> about this behavior before in this discussion, look for my previous posts).
Mike Kistler
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