Re: More keyword expansion questions
Jorgensen, Steven wrote: I have another keyword expansion related question. We are version controlling some Microsoft office documents along with our source code, and would like to use a keyword expansion in those documents so users can see what revision they are looking at. This can be setup, but you must know ahead of time the length the text will be. On another project that used pvcs, they solved this issue by specifying that any keywords when expanded would take a fix set of space, using blanks to make up for any characters that the keyword didn't need. Is there any way to do this in CVS? Thanks for any help. Steve Unless you are exporting those documents out to (real not MSextended) CSV or XML formats, so that they are now ascii text, those documents are binary, and you DO NOT want CVS mucking about in them. This is why when you add or import a word doc you give it the -kb flag. Short answer: NO. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: More keyword expansion questions
IMO, the revision of a word document or any other document can and should be maintained independent of the version control system revision numbering scheme. Keyword expansion in binaries has the potential to corrupt so it's not really an option anyway, not even with PVCS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorgensen, Steven Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:31 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: More keyword expansion questions I have another keyword expansion related question. We are version controlling some Microsoft office documents along with our source code, and would like to use a keyword expansion in those documents so users can see what revision they are looking at. This can be setup, but you must know ahead of time the length the text will be. On another project that used pvcs, they solved this issue by specifying that any keywords when expanded would take a fix set of space, using blanks to make up for any characters that the keyword didn't need. Is there any way to do this in CVS? Thanks for any help. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: More keyword expansion questions
This was also discussed recently at http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.146966.5 ~Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:info-cvs- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorgensen, Steven Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:31 PM To: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: More keyword expansion questions I have another keyword expansion related question. We are version controlling some Microsoft office documents along with our source code, and would like to use a keyword expansion in those documents so users can see what revision they are looking at. This can be setup, but you must know ahead of time the length the text will be. On another project that used pvcs, they solved this issue by specifying that any keywords when expanded would take a fix set of space, using blanks to make up for any characters that the keyword didn't need. Is there any way to do this in CVS? Thanks for any help. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
