Question

Is there a way to avoid/disable keyword expansion in MKS Integrity (2009)?

I found the parameter --unexpand for si ci which seems to have no impact at all.

Then there are the preferences that can be set with si setpreferences. When setting keywordExpand=noexpand for ci my sandbox file does not get changed. But if I create a new sandbox, the keywords are substituted again.

The user manual suggests, the substitution takes places at check-out actually. But then, I wonder why there is a preference keywordExpand for check-in at all. Setting keywordExpand=noexpand for co doesn’t help either.

Answer 1

To answer myself: It seems keyword expansion happens on both check-in and check-out. To disable it entirely, the following commands helped:

si setprefs --command=add keywordExpand=noexpand
si setprefs --command=annotate keywordExpand=noexpand
si setprefs --command=ci keywordExpand=noexpand
si setprefs --command=co keywordExpand=noexpand
si setprefs --command=resync keywordExpand=noexpand
si setprefs --command=revert keywordExpand=noexpand
si setprefs --command=viewrevision keywordExpand=noexpand

Additionally, MKS can/will replace expanded keywords by the raw keywords (unexpansion) which can be disabled with

si setprefs --command=add unexpandKeywords=false
si setprefs --command=import unexpandKeywords=false
si setprefs --command=ci unexpandKeywords=false