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Re: CVS $Log$ equivalent in Subversion?

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-03-09 17:00:01 CET

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:

> Also (and this just occured to me), I suspect Subversion would have
> problems with any use of a '$' in a log message. Expansion of "$Log
> $" would yield something like "$Log: this is my log with a $ (dollar
> sign) $", and subsequent unexpansion would reduce this to "$Log $
> (dollar sign) $". In fact, I betcha that if I author with a dollar
> sign in his name, that would royally mess up our $Author $ keyword
> handling.
>
> /me goes to check.

Uh... yep.

   $ svn diff
   Index: keys.kw
   ===================================================================
   --- keys.kw (revision 5)
   +++ keys.kw (working copy)
   @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
    $Date: 2004-03-03 01:36:06 -0600 (Wed, 03 Mar 2004) $
    $URL$
   -$Author$
   +$Author: bloo$loo $
   +

/me goes off to file an issue, noting that this bug would prevent us
from ever really supporting $Log$. I mean, surely Perl programmers
have the occasion dollar sign in their log messages somewhere. :-)

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