List Of Keywords

These are all the dollar-sign-delimited keywords that CVS recognizes. Following is a list of the keyword, a brief description, and an example of its expanded form:

• $Author$ – Author of the change:

            $Author: jrandom $
       

• $Date$ – The date and time of the change, in UTC (GMT):

            $Date: 1999/08/23 18:21:13 $
       

• $Header$ – Various pieces of information thought to be useful: full path to the RCS file in the repository, revision, date (in UTC), author, state, and locker. (Lockers are rare; although in the following example, qsmith has a lock.):

            $Header: /usr/local/newrepos/myproj/hello.c,v 1.1 1999/06/01 \
            03:21:13 jrandom Exp qsmith $
       

• $Id$ – Like $Header$, but without the full path to the RCS file:

            $Id: hello.c,v 1.1 1999/06/01 03:21:13 jrandom Exp qsmith $
       

• $Log$ – The log message of this revision, along with the revision number, date, and author. Unlike other keywords, the previous expansions are not replaced. Instead, they are pushed down, so that the newest expansion appears at the top of an ever-growing stack of $Log$ messages:

            $Log: hello.c,v $    Revision 1.12  1999/07/19 06:12:43  jrandom
                say hello in Aramaic
       

  Any text preceding the $Log$ keyword on the same line will be prepended to the downward expansions too; this is so that if you use it in a comment in a program source file, all of the expansion is commented, too.

• $Locker$ – Name of the person who has a lock on this revision (usually no one):

            $Locker: qsmith $
       

• $Name$ – Name of the sticky tag:

            $Name: release_1_14 $
       

• $RCSfile$ – Name of the RCS file in the repository:

            $RCSfile: hello.c,v $
       

• $Revision$ – Revision number:

            $Revision: 1.1 $
       

• $Source$ – Full path to the RCS file in the repository:

            $Source: /usr/local/newrepos/myproj/hello.c,v $
       

• $State$ – State of this revision:

            $State: Exp $