$Name and branches

2001-04-23 Thread David D. Hagood
(I hate not being able to reply to the messages, but either I'm having problems getting email from the list or my filters rae eating the messages. Could be worse: they could be spitting out nastygrams ;^)) Greg: I do agree with the bit about not allowing code out of control without a tag. In

Re: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-21 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 08:49:34 (-0500), David D. Hagood wrote: ] Subject: Re: $Name $ in branches Because I often have developers working on several different "things" at once. For example, I may be working on signal processing, and in a seperate branch working on

Re: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-20 Thread David D. Hagood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (CVS-II Discussion Mailing List) wrote: Huh? Why doesn't the $Author keyword (part of $Id, BTW), work for you then? Because I often have developers working on several different "things" at once. For example, I may be working on signal processing, and in a seperate branch

$Name $ and branches

2001-04-19 Thread David D. Hagood
I'm a little confused by an aspect of CVS: If I have a file that contains the $Name: $ keyword, and that file is checked out under a normal, non-branch tag FOO, the keyword will be expanded as $Name: FOO$. However, if the tag is a branch, the keyword won't be expanded. Is there some logic

UCE Complaint (Re: $Name $ and branches)

2001-04-19 Thread Christopher Fogarty
), David D. Hagood wrote: ] Subject: $Name $ and branches Is there some logic behind this behavior? For some of what I am doing, I'd really like to have the $Name$ be replaced with the branch tag. In CVS $Name is really only intended to be used with "cvs export -kv". I.e. it's there

Re: $Name $ and branches

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 11:01:27 (-0500), David D. Hagood wrote: ] Subject: $Name $ and branches Is there some logic behind this behavior? For some of what I am doing, I'd really like to have the $Name$ be replaced with the branch tag. In CVS $Name is really only intended

$Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread David D. Hagood
I disagree with Mr. Woods on this: adding the branch ID to a build makes sense in my environment: I have several developers, each working on their own branch of an embedded system. As needed, the load their code into target systems for development. Since the number of developers is larger

Re: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 16:12:25 (-0500), David D. Hagood wrote: ] Subject: $Name $ in branches I disagree with Mr. Woods on this: adding the branch ID to a build makes sense in my environment: I have several developers, each working on their own branch of an embedded system

RE: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread Jerry Nairn
I haven't tried it, but it looks like the $State$ keyword could provide the functionality you're looking for. See: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_12.html#SEC98 and http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC120 Jerry ___ Info-cvs

RE: $Name $ in branches

2001-04-19 Thread Greg A. Woods
[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 18:19:04 (-0700), Jerry Nairn wrote: ] Subject: RE: $Name $ in branches I haven't tried it, but it looks like the $State$ keyword could provide the functionality you're looking for. Take care because $State is also used internally in CVS. Probably the most