[Bioperl-l] CLEANUP: branch 07 to head ;cvs $Id lines

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Ahhh! So that's how it is done. According to co man page the correct
option is -kk: 'cvs update -kk'.

I am glad I can leave those $Id line in there. They are useful.

Thousand thanks,

		-Heikki

Aaron J Mackey wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:
> 
> > I just got from Ewan that cvs $Id: $ lines should not really be in
> > files and I can really see why: every single file merge is complaining
> > about conflicts and they have to be manually resolved.
> 
> That's why you use the -kkv update/checkout options so that keyword
> substitution doesn't bite you while you merge.  There's no problem having
> Name/ID in files, as long as you remember what to do.  There's a second -k
> option that's useful when "exporting" (i.e. packing up for distribution),
> that strips the keywords and only leaves the values (so that your code may
> be safely imported into someone else's CVS repository).
> 
> I may have the -kkv wrong - I always goto the page I have flagged in my
> Cedervist manual.  But the idea remains.
> 
> -Aaron

-- 
______ _/      _/_____________________________________________________
      _/      _/                      http://www.ebi.ac.uk/mutations/
     _/  _/  _/  Heikki Lehvaslaiho          heikki@ebi.ac.uk
    _/_/_/_/_/  EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute
   _/  _/  _/  Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton
  _/  _/  _/  Cambs. CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
     _/      Phone: +44 (0)1223 494 644   FAX: +44 (0)1223 494 468
___ _/_/_/_/_/________________________________________________________