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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/RCSFILES b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/RCSFILES index 0ac61aa1d42..f437cfe6118 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/RCSFILES +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/RCSFILES @@ -37,6 +37,24 @@ for more information on them. CVS also sets the RCS state to "dead" to indicate that a file does not exist in a given revision (this is stored just as any other RCS state is). +The rules regarding keyword expansion are not documented along with +the rest of the RCS file format; they are documented in the co(1) +manpage in the RCS 5.7 distribution. See also the "Keyword +substitution" chapter of cvs.texinfo. The co(1) manpage refers to +special behavior if the log prefix for the $Log keyword is /* or (*. +RCS 5.7 produces a warning whenever it behaves that way, and current +versions of CVS do not handle this case in a special way (CVS 1.9 and +earlier invoke RCS to perform keyword expansion). + +Note that the "comment {string};" syntax from rcsfile.5 specifies a +comment leader, which affects expansion of the $Log keyword for old +versions of RCS. The comment leader is not used by RCS 5.7 or current +versions of CVS. + +Both RCS 5.7 and current versions of CVS handle the $Log keyword in a +different way if the log message starts with "checked in with -k by ". +I don't think this behavior is documented anywhere. + Diff follows: (Note that in the following diff the old value for the Id keyword was: |