$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 f

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 on

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

$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 beh