Question

I am looking for a CVS equivalent to $id:$ in Accurev.

Before you start talking compile-time scripts – my major caveat is that a lot of my stuff is in Perl – so I can’t do any of the normal “compile-time tricks” – as there really isn’t much of any “compile-time” stuff.

I don’t really want to require external files to define this stuff, as if (god forbid) the external definition files got out-of-sync with the actual scripts, etc…

I know I could always do some sort of compile-time preprocessor on the script files (to rewrite them) – but if there is a cleaner or better-integrated way of doing so (like “$id:$” I’d appreciate anyone ideas).

Answer 1

Before we get into more specifics, have you taken a look at the pre-keep trigger example AccuRev provides, addheader.pl?

You can find the example in the /AccuRev/examples/addheader.pl location.

Cheers,
~James