Re: [Scribia-dev] Commit: project cleanup, prefix changes

[Lark <lar...@ya...>]

At 6:44 PM -0500 3/12/01, Charles Lechasseur wrote:
>it also answered a question i had about whether the files' headers were
>automatically updated by CVS when you committed something.

yes, they are

>  did you have to
>add a special comment at the beginning of each file to achieve this, or are
>all files automagically logged this way?

cvs expands tags that look like $keyword$ (they are in the header)

>  (i.e. if i add a file to the
>project, do i have to use a header template at the very beginning of the
>file? if so, how exactly should i set up that header to make sure logging
>works?)

use the header provided when you first create a file:

/*
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$RCSfile: HEADER,v $

Copyright (C) 2000-2001, The Scribia Development Team

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Artistic License for more
details.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$Revision: 1.3 $
   $Author: lark $
     $Date: 2001/02/04 20:24:41 $
    $State: Exp $
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
$Log: HEADER,v $
Revision 1.3  2001/02/04 20:24:41  lark
New copyright.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/

what cvs oes is replace the $Log...$ line with your commit comment 
every time a commit happens.

when you first start a file, remove the log that is already there, 
i.e. in the example above, you'd remove these two lines after pasting 
th header in:

>  Revision 1.3  2001/02/04 20:24:41  lark
>  New copyright.

the other info will automatically be corrected/updated on commit.


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Lark <lar...@ya...>