Re: preserve Id in binary library?

You may miss-understand keywords.  In CVS (and SVN) the keywords are
_stored_ in the repository in compressed form $KEYWORD$.  They are only
expanded on checkout/update.  On checkin, they are compressed to compact
form before deltas are created.

Possible solutions: If you use mercurial, you can use the keyword extensions
to get cvs-like keywords.  Or, you could write a script that iterated
through your files and updated the keywords manually, based on your needs: a
form of macro expansion.  It would be cleaner to move the id information to
another (text-like file) and update the build process to update/populate
that file.  I know, this is not easy in some cases.

Good luck.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 17:52, John Heumann <[email protected]>wrote:

> **
> Hi Greg.
>
> Thanks very much for the cvs2hg backend!
> I've been porting a number of old repositories recently, and it's worked
> flawlessly in most cases.
>
> I have run into one problem with keywords in binary files. This cvs
> repository contains 2 binary (.lib) files which contain expanded Id strings
> in their header. We need to maintain these unaltered, but cvs2hg seems
> compacts them to $Id$ even if I use the --keywords-off option.
>
> Is there a way to suppress this? Our current workaround is to check in a
> copy of the original library after conversion.
>
> Thanks once again!
>
> Regards,
> -jh-
>

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