RE: checkout hook; user defined keyword

Joachim,

> Working on the files within the 'make' run causes sometimes 
> trouble with 
> timestamps. So I would prefer the modification to be done by 
> cvs in checkout or update.
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> a user defined keyword, which is updated by the contents of a file;

I know in CVSNT Server (free/GPL, unix, mac, windows) that user defined
keywords can be set up that take their value from variables passed from
CVS or CVSNT clients (cvs -s VAR=VAL co module) so this would work.

The existing CVS and/or CVSNT client code could be modified to take a
variable from a file (eg: cvs -S VAR=FILE co module).

As always CVSNT specific questions are best answered on the CVSNT
newsgroup.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett