Re: Change keywords for already added files

Ben,
 
The 'cvs admin' has no effect on the default behaviour, see the
explanation in the manual for cvswrappers.
 
As a general rule:
* cvs admin is for developers of CVS only - if you are considering using
it you need to read the source code
* never modify the RCS files directly - it's a great way to lose all
your version history
* there is ALWAYS a legal, valid, easy way to do anything that needs
doing using the tools provided
 
In CVSNT the keyword options are versioned - so they appear on each
revision of each file.  This is very important to have a useful SCCM
solution - because release branches may need different keyword expansion
options than development branches (eg: reserved versioning).
 
The 'cvs admin' keyword commands were designed for when the keyword
options were 'per file' and not versioned.
 
Regards,
 
 
Arthur Barrett
 
 
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Ben Weatherall [mailto:[email protected]] 
	Sent: Sunday, 28 March 2010 9:54 AM
	To: tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org; Glen Starrett;
[email protected]
	Subject: Re: [TortoiseCVS] Change keywords for already added
files
	
	
	Hi Glen & Neal,
	
	I believe you should also use an 'cvs admin -ko filename' or
'cvs admin -kk filename' command to set the default behavior for future
cvs commands.
	
	-Ben Weatherall
	Configuration Manager
	PDX, Inc.
	
	
	
	----- Reply message -----
	From: "Glen Starrett" <glen.starrett-qn/[email protected]>
	Date: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 16:33
	Subject: [TortoiseCVS] Change keywords for already added files
	To: "Neal Harder" <[email protected]>,
"tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org"
<tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
	
	

	Hi Neal,

	 

	There is a better way to achieve that, assuming you want to
change to the "o" attribute:

	 

	n  cvs update -ko FILENAME

	n  cvs commit -f -m "change keyword options"

	 

	I know you can do this with the Tortoise GUI using the "command"
option, you can't do the "update -ko" through the normal forms.  I would
just use the command line client though, in this case.

	 

	Regards,

	 

	 

	Glen Starrett

	Technical Account Manager, North America

	March Hare Software, LLC

	http://march-hare.com/cvspro/ <http://march-hare.com/cvspro/> 

	800-653-1501 x803

	 

	From: Neal Harder [mailto:[email protected]] 
	Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:26 PM
	To: tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
	Subject: Re: [TortoiseCVS] Change keywords for already added
files

	 

	Janis,

	You can edit the archive directly and modify the flags of the
last committed revision.  This is of course not recommended by anyone,
but will quickly and easily get you what you want.  The meta-information
for each revision is listed at the top of the archive file.  Check the
"head" line at the top to see what the head revision is, then scroll
down until you find the meta-information for that revision.  One of the
fields is "kopt" and you'll see the flags next to it, in my case I use
"kvx;".  Change this to what you want and save the archive.

	 

	There is a command called "admin" that was originally intended
to be able to do this with the "-ksubst" flag, but apparently the makers
of CVSNT decided that changing the k-flags wasn't something they wanted
to support:

	 

	http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/html/admin.html

	 

	As far as I know there is no way to change the k-flags after the
origianl "Add" is done, except for the direct edit of the archive as I
mentioned above. I would be delighted if somebody knows better than me!!

	 

	-Neal

	 

		----- Original Message ----- 

		From: Janis <mailto:[email protected]>  

		To: tortoisecvs-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org 

		Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:08 PM

		Subject: [TortoiseCVS] Change keywords for already added
files

		 

		--> 

		Hello!

		Is it possible to change keywords after a file has
already been added. For example, I have added files with the (default)
option to manage keywords normally (-kv), and they already have some
update history by now. However, I want to stop keyword updates, to
disable them (-o) from now on. Is it possible not losing the history, or
I can only remove the file and re-add as a new one with keywords
disabled?

		Thank you,
		Janis

		
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