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15. Keyword substitution
As long as you edit source files inside your working
copy of a module you can always find out the state of
your files via `cvs status' and `cvs log'.
But as soon as you export the files from your
development environment it becomes harder to identify
which revisions they are.
Rcs uses a mechanism known as keyword
substitution (or keyword expansion) to help
identifying the files. Embedded strings of the form
$keyword$ and
$keyword:...$ in a file are replaced
with strings of the form
$keyword:value$ whenever you obtain
a new revision of the file.
Menu
- Keyword list
- RCS Keywords
- Using keywords
- Using keywords
- Avoiding substitution
- Avoiding substitution
- Substitution modes
- Substitution modes
- Log keyword
- Problems with the $Log$ keyword.
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