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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Subject:   Re: $FreeBSD tag confusion
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990829213751.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <14282.2563.303797.40529@mired.eh.local>

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Kevin Street wrote:

>>Are you getting a copy of CVSROOT? 
> 
>   yes...as part of src-all, but it's not used as *my* CVSROOT.  

Aha.

>   Let's go back to the beginning here.  Is my cvs responsible for
> expanding the $FreeBSD$ tags, or are they supposed to arrive in my cvs 
> repository already expanded?

Expansion of RCS keywords occurs on check_out_, not on checkin.  In
other words, your cvs is responsible for expanding them.

> If my cvs needs to do it, then I presume 
> I need to add some options to my CVSROOT to make that happen.  If so,
> is there a description somewhere of what I need to steal out of
> FreeBSD's CVSROOT that will make it happen?

Grab the "options" file from there.

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."        -- Nora Ephron



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