When are keywords substituted?

[Nick Patavalis]

Reading from the CVS (info) manual [keyword substitution / using
keywords]:

  To include a keyword string you simply include the relevant text
  string, such as `$Id$', inside the file, and commit the file.  CVS
  will automatically expand the string *as part of the commit
  operation*.

Is this true? I thought that expansion occured as a part of the
*export* (cvs checkout, cvs diff, cvs export, etc) operations.

/npat

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Re: When are keywords substituted?

[Larry Jones]

Nick Patavalis writes:
> 
> Is this true? I thought that expansion occured as a part of the
> *export* (cvs checkout, cvs diff, cvs export, etc) operations.

Both are correct.  The actual process of expanding keywords happens
during checkout, but committing a file containing keywords triggers an
automatic re-checkout of the file and thus updates the keywords.

-Larry Jones

I don't want to be THIS good! -- Calvin


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