> I'm working on some software (spamassassin) that uses the > subversion > keyword "$LastChangedDate$". In the same file that it's used, I > want that > string to appear unmodified - not expanded by subversion, exactly > as > "$LastChangedDate$" instead of something like "$LastChangedDate: > 2010-03-30 > 08:02:18 -0400 (Tue, 30 Mar 2010) $" > > Because I want to check for a case where svn keywords aren't > getting > expanded. > > Something like (perl): > > if ('$LastChangedDate$' eq '$LastChangedDate$') > > But with one of them getting expanded, and the other not. > > I think it would work to do something like: > > if ('$LastChangedDate$' eq '$LastChan'.'gedDate$') > > But I'd prefer to escape the keyword instead. > > Maybe something like \$LastChangedDate$ ?
I'm confused about what you are asking. Are you saying you don't want subversion to expand the keywords? If so, then remove them from the svn:keywords property. Any keywords not in the property are not expanded. BOb