From: Randal L. Schwartz Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:09:22 GMT Subject: Re: RCS keyword expansion Message-ID: <86fy0hvgbh.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Karlsson writes: Peter> I mainly want to have $Date$ expand in RCS/CVS manner, i.e to when the Peter> file was last changed. Possibly even have an $Id$ that gives me Peter> something useful (name and commit hash, perhaps?). Is it possible to do Peter> this? Can it be done through git-cvsserver? That's not a job for a source code manager to do. It's a job for your build/install tool. See how "git --version" gets created in the core distro, and follow that example. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!