On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:15:03 -0800, Noel Yap sent 0.9K bytes:
> --- Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, commit does a checkout to expand keywords -- see
> > checkin.c starting
> > at the comment that says:
> >
> > /* The checkin succeeded. If checking the file out
> > again would not cause any changes, we are done.
> > Otherwise, we need to check out the file, which will
> > change the modification time of the file.
> >
> > The only way checking out the file could cause any
> > changes is if the file contains RCS keywords. So we if
> > we are not expanding RCS keywords, we are done. */
>
> Thanks for clearing this up. This comment also
> indicates that the checkout is specific to updating
> RCS keywords so it wouldn't work for changes made by a
> commitinfo script.
It certainly does work for changes made with the commitinfo script - an
undocumented feature, perhaps.
Scott
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