August 2019
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CVS supports the substitution of certain keywords in source code. For example, $Author$, $CVSHeader$, and $Id$.Developers have used this feature frequently (some still do). To use this mechanism, you would insert the keyword – let's call it a special variable – in your text or source file. Then, you would commit this file to your repository. By doing this, CVS will substitute this variable with the value in the CVS context during the commit. A lot of people use the $Id$ string in their C source code. You can turn off this behavior completely in CVS by specifying -ko on the command line.
As an example, let's say I add a keyword to a source file, as follows:
{ "name": "cvsproject", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "something", ...Read now
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