CVS Keywords

CVS Keywords are dollar-sign delimited strings that CVS interprets and automatically expands. This is generally Good Behavior for text files (like html files or C source code), but is really Bad News for binary files which might happen to have a keyword coincidentally embedded in the data.

To work around that, you can add a binary file to the repository with:

% cvs add -kb filename

or you can change it after-the-fact with:

% cvs admin -kb filename

Anyway, on with the keywords.

Keyword	Explanation
$Author: $	The user responsible for a change. $Author: markd $
$Date: $	Date and time of the change, in GMT. $Date: 1999/12/23 21:59:22 $
$Header: $	A collection of information: full path to the RCS file, revision number, date/time of last change (GMT), author, state, and locker. (lockers are a rare occurance in CVS) $Header: /cvsweb/cvs-guide/keyword.html,v 1.3 1999/12/23 21:59:22 markd Exp $
$Id: $	Like $Header: $, but without the path to the RCS file. $Id: keyword.html,v 1.3 1999/12/23 21:59:22 markd Exp $
$Log: $	Inserts the cvs log message. This behaves differently than other tags in that it just inserts new information after the keyword. It doesn't replace the keyword or modify existing text. $Log: keyword.html,v $ Revision 1.3 1999/12/23 21:59:22 markd dummy change to bump up revision. Revision 1.2 1999/12/23 21:59:15 markd dummy change to bump up revision. Revision 1.1 1999/12/23 21:58:35 markd initial revision
$Locker: $	The user who has a lock on this revision (usually nobody) $Locker: markd $
$Name: $	If a sticky tag is in effect, this is the name of that tag. Otherwise blank. $Name: guide_release_1 $
$RCSfile: $	Name of the RCS file in the repository $RCSfile: keyword.html,v $
$Revision: $	Revision number $Revision: 1.3 $
$Source: $	Full path to the RCS ",v" file in the repository $Source: /cvsweb/cvs-guide/keyword.html,v $
$State: $	State of this revision. $State: Exp $