Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:22:52PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > > Minor nitpick: > > > > > > You must use `$Id:$', or cvs will not expand it. The `:' is needed. > > > > Your assertion does not agree with my experience... I consistantly use $Id$ > > prior to initial checkin, and have never seen it to require the ':'. In > > fact, the above is an exceedingly standard construct (though usually done > > as an RCSID macro, with optional GCC attribute tagging as unused) in some > > number of the projects I contribute source to. > > I concur. From cvs.info: > > `$Id$' > Same as `$Header$', except that the RCS filename is without a path.
Strange. $ grep '$Id' ~/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/* grep: /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/CVS: Is a directory /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h: * $Id:$ /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h: * End of $Id$ /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h.in: * $Id:$ /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h.in: * End of $Id$ /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h.in.~1.10.~: * $Id$ /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h.in.~1.10.~: * End of $Id$ /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print-intl.h: * "$Id$" /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print-intl-internal.h: * "$Id$" /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/Makefile.am:## $Id$ Perhaps the files are set to binary type, or something? I just noticed that some of the unexpanded entries /are/ $Id:$, so the `:' isn't the reason. -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the Countryside Alliance Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers