On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Stuart Cooper wrote: > > try cvs update -A instead. > > nope, that didn't work but it was well worth a try.
Yeah - I use "update -A" to get the current versions of all files, and yes it clears the stickty tags. But as you write it is not a solution for what I wrote yesterday. > > I've got a handscrawled note next to $Name$ in my reference guide which reads: > > ################################################################ > "This keyword is expanded only if one checks out with an explicit tag name" > eg cvs co -r tag gives a $Name: tag$ expansion of the keyword" > ################################################################ > > Obviously the rules are a bit more subtle than that. Keyword expansion happens > at checkout time, so I guess your update -r TAG1 causes a checkout of a.txt > only and not b.txt (regardless of whether it's update -A -r TAG1 or just > update -r TAG1) and the expansion of $Name$ happens to a.txt only as that's > the only file which gets checked out. And I would actually prefer to have b.txt changed as well in my example. > The Tag in the text file CVS/Entries is kept OK in each case: > TAG1 > $ cat CVS/Entries > /a.txt/1.1.1.1/Tue Jul 11 23:59:34 2006//TTAG1 > /b.txt/1.1.1.1/Wed Jul 12 00:14:22 2006//TTAG1 > D > > $ cat CVS/Entries > /a.txt/1.1.1.1/Tue Jul 11 23:59:34 2006//TTAG2 > /b.txt/1.2/Wed Jul 12 00:14:16 2006//TTAG2 > D > > Notice when I do the cvs update -r TAG1 from a TAG2 state, I only get > one file updated: > $ cvs update -r TAG1 . > cvs update: Updating . > U b.txt > > Only b.txt checked out by this revert-update, so only b.txt keyword-expanded. > > I guess to be completely sure of $Name$ validity, you'd trash the > project completely > and do a fresh cvs co -r TAG1 project Yep - which was a part of my example, but that is clearly a bad solution, and I guess for most large projects NOT possible in reality. > Cheers, > Stuart. Best Peter Peter Toft, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pto.linux.dk "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi _______________________________________________ info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
